Friday, February 18, 2005
Sadness
One of my favorite television shows is Without a Trace. Anthony La Paglia is beyond wonderful to look at and listen to. He infuses Jack with more dimensions than most of the people you meet in a month of Sundays (whatever that cliche means). Sometimes the show tells 'merely' entertaining and absorbing stories but sometimes they're so sad they break through to making me ponder modern life. There's a lot of sadness these days. By no means the worst time even in modern times, but not cheery, either, for a lot of people. Last night's show focussed on a spoiled celebrity flibberty-gibbet targeted to die by the surviving brother of a little girl who idolized the celeb and took her own young life out of disappointment after failing to get the celeb's attention. Little girls can get way too wrapped up in emotional illogic, and the superficiality of it all is completely irrelevant amid the centrifugally forceful downward spinning. It's certainly a valid socio-ethical-moral point that worshiping silly celebrities is foolish and destructive. We should all concentrate more on developing ourselves, our interior lives. So do this: say something empathetic and upbeat to at least three people today.
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