Life’s a Soap Opera, Reality is on TV

Subtitle of this post being:
REALLY random thoughts I had at 3am one morning when I could not sleep at all…

Every story, song, movie and TV show has its own beginning, middle and end. Some are better than others. Some things are about real life and some are so far fetched that they can’t be real. Then there is the protagonist and the antagonist. Sometimes these two are clear cut. Other times the one you think is the good or innocent one is the one that will take your heart and rip it right out of you.

A song can make or break a moment. It can bring you back in time to your first kiss or make you remember a lost love. Every lyric and line, every verse has its own meaning. To the person who put pen to paper and to the person listening to these words coming to them through their radio. Even if the singer didn’t even write the song they sing they still felt something deep inside the first time they heard it to make them think it was worth recording. A good song can some up a moment, a great song can some up a person’s life.

Heroes are not born, they are created. A person doesn’t just wake up one day and decide they will save a life and in doing so risk their own. No one is wired that way from day one. Even Superman had his days off from saving the planet from impending doom. He may have been destined to do great things but I bet he didn’t save anyone from any burning buildings at five years old. The real heroes are not always like those you see in the movies and comics. A hero can be your neighbor, your best friend or even you. You can make your own dreams come true if you believe in yourself and work for everything you want in life.

Ok so that last part was some kind of bull shit I know and its what the morals of what most fair tales are. It also can be looked at as the “American dream” and can get a person thinking…

Have you ever taken a good look at your life? I mean a real good look. You look at yourself in the mirror. Look at your home. Your family and friends. Now think about those things and write down everything that comes to mind on a piece of paper. It may not be much but its the story of your life. It’s your song.

Now look again. Look long and hard at each and everything and everyone around you that makes you, you. Tall, short. Fat, thin. Single, married. Only child, or just one of many. Notice that what was originally considered the ‘nuclear family’ is few and far between in this day and age. Families don’t always come in the neat little box one imagines for themselves anymore.

If you thought that hard enough about it all you would say to yourself is ‘My life would make for a good TV show or a really great song.’ People have been thinking these thoughts for years. Some people have taken them straight to the bank. Albeit I am not one to watch the bullshit named ‘reality’ on TV but I do love most country music which is usually written for people to relate to it.

Here’s a thought I have about TV today. Someone should seriously start a channel and call it Reality TV. Here’s the kicker…play nothing but music videos and the occasional good old family sitcoms anyone over the age of 20 grew up with knowing and loving.