Television Shows

I've always said that, for the most part, television shows should depict the type of life we would like to have with all its virtuous joys. While movies and other dramatizations could cover the rest of the world's emotions, both bitter and sweet.

My personal preference of envy in the "happy-ending" utopia world of television is their never-tiring willingness to help one another regardless of the time and effort it took to do. You all will see these things to be true if you take a more careful look your next viewing. You'll see someone's feelings hurt or them befallen into any sort of trouble. A friend. A family member. Even someone that is an enemy, but undeserving still of whatever detriment comes their way. Then you'll see various other members of the cast come together and state the problem to one another, question amongst them what to do, devise a plan, carry out the plan with usually at least one failure (depending on the lengthyness), and come up with another that either works or makes the person feel better due to all the attention and love.

Why can we not take each others problems and feelings as seriously as those who have to make a half hour plot out of it? If we didn't always write it off as a "better them than me" scenario think of the change that would happen. What if we did a whole lot more thinking on how to cheer our neighbor up when they were down in the dumps. What if we went the extra mile in trying to solve an issue in another's walk. What if we had a laugh track everytime someone cracked a joke, or a dramatic score everytime someone lost a job or a friend, what if some unseen audience was heard applauding everytime we entered a room. What if friends were friends. What if everyone was cared about, everyone was noticed, everyone had a role to play, everyone was...loved.