Who said you can't learn anything from watching television?! I learned 2 important lessons tonight from watching the first premiere episode of Desperate Housewives Season 6! Before I go on to say what it is I learned, here is a short history of me and DH.
Desperate Housewives is one of my ALL TIME favourite show. It's up there with FRIENDS even. I will recommend it to anyone that needs a good, uncomplicated laugh. The show follows the lives of 5 middle age women living in a suburban neighbourhood in Fairview, America. There is Susan, the main character of sort and the 'damsel in distress' heroine of the show, then there is Bree, the uptight Stepford wife kind, Gabrielle, the model turned housewife, Lynette, the one that had one to many children and of course, Eddie, the tramp of the neighbourhood. But if you ask me, they all characterize the perfect b.i.t.c.h at some point or another. Anywho..., their lives are all intertwined and injected where everybody is in everybody else's business as there is always a shroud of mystery that needs to be unravelled (often done by peering into your neighbour's window). Ha. So here is what I came across. Two very important statements that made me go...'huh'. Both related, one that extends on the first.
1. Would you rather be good, or happy? Carl asks this of Bree when she is reluctant to continue their intermittent affair. And this (if you can believe it) struck a hard cord with me. In one of my earlier post (this one) I had written about the struggles of being good. I came to write this post as I am constantly questioning what is good, and whether I can be good. So many wayward thoughts and wantings I have, yet I had chose to believe and accept that being good is the ultimate happiness. But now, with this question in mind I ask myself, 'what is the point of being good, if you are unhappy?'. I mean, why deny myself that piece of cake? Yes, not eating it would make me a good girl who sticks to her diet....., but if I eat it, it will make me happy damn it! Which is more important?!!!! Of course I am using an analogy of a cake to make my point, but this presses onto much larger issues in life. For example, should I be good and marry the person my parents deem suitable, or should I follow my heart and be happy with the person I love? And there is also the question of should I stick to the job that gives me the steady pay cheque week to week so I can support my family, or should I pursue my true passion? Or how about, should I marry the one I am with, or be happy with the one I love?
2. Feeling guilty is a small price for happiness! This is the second statement. So what if I spent the $100 I didn't have, it made me happy didn't it?! Our lives are too short, and too damn complicated to go through life all wound up. Maybe it is a good idea to wind down, and let loose your hair. Apart from the obvious of being good and evil, maybe we should just try to be the better version of ourselves that we can be, whilst being happy. If you have to deny yourself of happiness to be someone, then it just might not be worth it to be good.
...more thoughts to come..., ..I think....!
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