Bach-in It

Well, I don't know if any of you keep up with much TV, but my wife has been watching The Bachelor recently. Now, I currently despise these types of shows and even told her a few weeks ago while I joined her in watching an episode, that if my daughter was ever on a show like this, I will have failed as a father. The whole idea that after a couple of months, or however long the show takes, you are ready to marry someone because you have whittled away all of the other choices to me seems absurd. And most of them fail; big surprise. Even the premise of meeting someone among the perfect and dream-like atmosphere and carefully planned dream dates and that relationship surviving in the less than par real world seems to set this couple up for failure. Needless to say, I am not impressed with the whole lot of reality shows these days. Whatever happened to the one about the fiancee guy that was an actor and the girl thought it was real and had to introduce him to her parents so she could win a lot of money? He was really obnoxious and it was really funny. But you knew it was totally fake.

Anyway, one of the coolest things happened last week. It was down to the last two girls and the duke picked out a ring and he was expected to propose to one of them. Which meant that one would go home broken hearted. The guy turned both of them down. Both. You wanna know why? He wasn't in love with either. Good for you dude. I don't even know his name, but he chose not to go with either girl. He was and probably is still waiting for a real relationship. I applaud him. Hold out for the real thing and don't you dare compromise.