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When
your child's teacher
needs to consult Dr. Phil
by Peary Perry | |
I
don’t watch daytime television. Mainly because I’m not home during the daytime.
However, as you know, these past few weeks I’ve been trying to recover from pneumonia
and haven’t been hitting on all eight cylinders as of late. This past week I took
off early on Friday and found myself sitting in front of the boob tube thumbing
the remote trying to find something of value out there in the vast wasteland.
I finally stumbled onto Dr. Phil. After a few minutes I decided that he
might be ok, but some of his guests are borderline insane. Case in point. He has
a couple on, nice looking, intelligent, well groomed, not what you would call
raving lunatics.
Now, the major complaint that these fine folks are asking
Dr. Phil to solve is simple. The wife has this attraction to buy everything that
the movie and rock stars wear so she can be noticed. She reads all of the fan
magazines, sees what the stars are buying and then goes out and buys the stuff
for herself. According to her husband, she is spending them out of house and home
as well as neglecting her family. Dr. Phil asked her who does she think she is
impressing with her purchases and she replied….’Them’.
He then asked
(naturally) just who ‘Them’ is and she goes on to state that when she is walking
through the mall or anywhere else, ‘everyone will notice that she has a purse
just like Brittany or shoes like Paris wears.’
Dr. Phil was amazed and
said she needed to get a grip on this. First off, there isn’t any ‘they’ or ‘them’
and no one really cares or gives a big hoot if you wear stuff from Dior or J.C.
Penney.
In the waiting rooms of the doctors I’ve seen over the past couple
of weeks are these magazines entitled …’People’ and ‘US’ that seem to hold the
attention of millions of our citizens. Is this crazy or what? First off, I don’t
know any of these people in these publications and probably never will. Second
off, I don’t want to know any of these people. What good would it do for me to
meet them? Can you imagine what running around with the likes of say, Paris Hilton
would be like? Not me. Do you really think you’d like to be friends with say Donald
Trump or Mike Tyson? So, why read about them and follow their lives? Why should
you care?
I want a low-key existence, not some lifestyle where I have
to have people around me all of the time, fawning over me or just being there.
I can’t think of anything worse than fame. I bet if you asked most of these famous
people, they’d trade their fame in for just a sense of normal. Why do they wear
disguises if they wanted fame so badly?
I’m not saying that entertainment
people don’t earn their money. God bless them if they can get a zillion bucks
for making a motion picture or recording some album. That’s the American way.
But, let’s face it, they are just people who happened to be in the right place
at the right time and had some talent (in most cases). Have you ever seen a movie
being made? I have and let me tell you this…it’s boring, boring, boring. Paint
drying is more interesting.
Please release me from the likes of the media
who seem to think I am desperately interested in what religion Tom Cruise belongs
to. I don’t care. Brad Pitt breaks up with his girl friend or wife? I don’t care.
Matters not to me. Russell what’s his name gets into another fight and punches
some poor guy out? Who cares? He can afford the legal expense.
Movie
and rock stars are not living in the same world as you and I do. We have to work.
We have to drive our kids to the doctor. We have to feed our own dogs. We have
to change the toilet paper rolls and refill the water bottle for the bird.
Dr. Phil pointed out to this lady that she was a teacher and that in itself should
be enough. He was correct. The teachers in our lives are much more apt to have
an influence over our families than some millionaire movie star repeating words
from a script. This lady needs to wake up and be happy with who she is, not who
she thinks she might like to be. | | |
