Do I belong to a minority?
penny December 6th, 2009
I’m uneasy spending time posting this entry, as I just feel like I’m becoming the same as what I abhor. But well, I gotta get it off my chest. And since I am alone at the moment, the blog is the usual place I rant, as most you know by now.
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So smoke alarms are going off everywhere about Tiger’s affairs with various girls. It’s disappointing, sure, I’ve got so much respect for this athlete; as much as I have respect for Manny Pacquiao as a boxer, even if I am no fan of boxing.
But to be honest, what bothers me more is the level of interest shown for their non-sporting affairs. Do I belong to a minority? I bet more know about this ‘recent’ girl coming out than Tiger’s most recent tournament win. It just shows how eager we are to find shadows where success is, because it reassures us that there is no such thing as a perfect life nor a perfect person… and it makes us feel better about ourselves. Keep ‘em grounded, eh? Serves ‘em right for lettin’ the fame to their head?
This kind of thinking is what keeps those showbiz and gossip outfits in business. Part of human nature? Perhaps. Don’t you think such things are part of the reason why societies are fixating to populations of mushbrains? But again, to be honest, this is one of the aspects of humanity which I hope will just die out now. But with the repeated surges of interest in tabloid fodder (and it is just so ubiquitious everywhere!) I doubt this kind of interest will ever go away.
Just my luck.
