Okay, I'll admit it. I get so wrapped up in my show/ team/ _______ fill in the blank not winning that you'd think I had lost. I really grieved when my UT team continually lost to competitors. I got all misty-eyed last night when Jodie Foster got up to receive her Lifetime award at the Golden Globes and why? Just because she is my age? Because I've basically grown up with JF and so I'm somehow invested in her? We humans are funny that way. I recall an incident I heard when we first moved to Oklahoma six years ago and this story has stuck with me; it is humans gone awry in the worst sense! Maybe I've shared it before; I can't remember.... I AM J.F.'s age and she just received a "lifetime" award!!! Doesn't that imply she has lived a lifetime? And if she has at the ripe old age of 50 (yes, I'm older than 50 but not much older than 50!) lived a lifetime and is awarded for it; where does that leave me????? LOL I love the t-shirt I bought my youngest daughter: IT IS ALL ABOUT ME!!!!! Rat Mom didn't find it all that funny. I howled when I saw it and immediately thought of her.
So back to my OK story. Two men were in a bar. One a UT fan, one an ou fan (yes, I meant little "o" little "u."). They were arguing about sports specifically their teams....who was better, etc. etc. Tempers escalated and well, one of the men grabbed the other man's testicles and squeezed so hard that medical damage was done. Really??!! I might be able to relate if we were talking 2 football players from opposite teams but we are talking two idiots who hadn't even gone to either of those universities let alone a university at all! Not that that makes any difference, mind you. I just thought it was an interesting fact.
In a small sense I can relate, but don't worry your ovaries are safe. I'm not coming after you if you are celebrating Homeland's sweeping wins. I happen to like Downton Abbey so I am pleased that Maggie Smith won best supporting actor. Whoo hoo, Violet!!).
But it brings me back to my wonderings (just made that word up, thank you very much!). I wonder why we attach ourselves to TV characters? I wonder why we attach ourselves to the actors? Is something missing in our own lives that we have to live vicariously through them? It is one thing to attach ourselves to others based on what they believe or don't believe, but to get so wrapped up in them that we would shoot a president to impress an actor; think Hinkley. Okay, so maybe you are young and don't know what I'm talking about. Hinkley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan to impress Jody Foster. When we get so wrapped up in them, that we'd shoot at a United States President or take one of their lives (think "My Sister Sam" actress, Rebecca Schaeffer....look it up on Wikipedia if you don't know what I'm talking about. I really am old!). That kind of attachment is deadly in so many senses of the word.
For today, I am going to reflect on my own life. If the Golden Globes? Academy Awards? A Memorial Service? were to flash my lifetime achievement life upon a screen, what would be shown? I wonder.
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