But I work out at 24 Hour Fitness about 3-5 times a week. While I go to town on my ass and thighs, I’m usually able to catch a good old fashion teen/adult-ish movie (Yesterday it was 13 Going On 30). By for the most part it’s sports or Keeping Up With The Kardashians, both which I can tolerate and be entertained by in small doses. So you get the idea, basically E! or ESPN. (Every now and then some sick bastard has the food network on and if that’s the case I will chase the pasta right off the fucking screen!!) I workout because I love food. Sooooo anyways …. I was watching E! Yesterday from my “work station” if you will, and I kept seeing ads for this new show called “Rich Kids of Beverly Hills” with that lame ass hash tag shit on the corner of the screen. And let’s be real, the only reason these shows are cool and exciting to watch its because these are people who are “supposed to be” better than you and I but WAIT! they have problems and drama too! Omg! It’s like I feel better about myself because my life isn’t as bad….bullshit bullshit bullshit. Okay so I was curious because usually (using the Real House Wives franchise as an example) the people on these shows aren’t even who they say they are. I mean how many times do we find out later that so and so from whatever show filed bankruptcy (omg no way, they had like and über nice mansion) - more like omg ya that’s what fucking happens when you don’t live within your means. I’m no savings expert. I have my shopping binges like any other 23 year old young woman and then spend the next two months paying off a credit card I swore I’d save for emergencies. But I also work my ass off. I have two jobs, school, a little Kailua cottage that keep me busy at all times. I don’t take out loans to live this luxurious life of “things”. I’d rather roll around in the sand on the north shore than own a diamond encrusted iPhone 5S. Sorry but why the fuck do I want that kind of responsibility for an object that will be obsolete in a year?! I had my 3GS until the iPhone 5 came out! Ok, so back to the rich kids of Beverly Hills, I looked that shit up…why does everyone look 35?! Why does it seem like no one has a job? Why do shows about people richer than me keep getting broadcast and making those people even more money?! Don’t get me wrong, if I was to win the lottery, I’m not gonna be pissed, but the first thing I’m paying off is those goddamn student loans. I know those people exist too, it’s not like Lisa Vanderpump comes on TV and I go “holy shit! A rich person!” And trust when I say that I’ve embraced my poverty line serving. I grew up poor and in the ghetto of Chula Vista, CA to a single mom of two who took pride in her 80 hour work weeks so she could put her kids in private school. So ya we didn’t wear mall shop clothes but we had two year advanced education. (Obviously when I was 8 I much preferred clothes and things as opposed to math but hey who doesn’t?). It’s not like I’m making millions now either. I have two well paying jobs and I work very hard so that I don’t have to stress about my paycheck a potentially not covering my monthly expenses but I’m super grateful for what I have and the life I’ve been able to build for myself. So why do networks keep writing these shows?! (Yea writing cause that shit ain’t real) why do we sit and lose brain cells investing minutes of our lives to watch people with “money” (cause who even really has money nowadays) act stupid and dramatic? I just don’t understand. Is this what the TV watching public wants? I don’t know! I haven’t had cable since I moved to Hawaii! It’s like a rarity to me. Why doesn’t Ryan Seacrest go produce a show about all the college students struggling to find work after graduation and the struggle to pay off these incredibly expensive and interest filled loans? How bout a show about the sex trafficking epidemic in the good ol USA ?! You think that shit only hits countries like Thailand and India, wrong! That shit is everywhere. Do people who watch TV know that what they watch is fake?! Real life isn’t cocktails, coketails, and three ways. Wake up! This country is just as messed up as the poorest parts of the world. Just because rich kids of Beverly Hills seems like a pretty way for the world to be fucked up I guess. “Omg I’m so depressed, so and so got dumped on bla bla bla”. Who fucking cares, a kid in Somalia got his fucking arm shot off for no reason today and you’re “depressed”?!? Ya I bet the depression has taken over your life. Anyways, I guess I just don’t get the reasoning behind these shows… If we know it’s not real, how come we watch it and process it as if it is?
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