I’m trying to understand the people that would try out and appear on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette or any of the other spins off shows of that nature.
My mid-teen daughter seems to have a fascination with these shows or maybe she just watches them when she gets her iPad taken away because she knows they drive me nuts.
I’m sure many have the memories of grade school when you were playing any of the sports during school or, the best ones, at recess. They could be Red Rover, Baseball, Dodge ball, Frisbee Football or whatever other game was the flavor of the day. Somebody decided who the team captains were and they worked their way through the crowd of hopefuls picking teams. Fortunately, it didn’t take long and most people already knew the order they would get picked. Me being the smaller, nerdy type kid with glasses I was usually in the bottom third but in baseball, I would always make sure to bring a glove as that guaranteed you a spot on a team.
Are these new reality shows a version of the same selection process? A bunch of hopefuls try out and if all goes well they will be picked by the team captain and get to spend the rest of their life with somebody that picked them out of a crowd? I can hear some of those arguments in the future, ‘You picked me baby and now you’re stuck with me!”
So are the contestants on these shows the kids who were picked first in grade school and don’t think anybody else could possibly beat them at this or any other competition. If so why are they single and on a dating show?
Or are these the ones that were picked at the bottom and they feel this is their only chance at finding someone?
Maybe none of these contestants got to play pickup sports in school or at recess because they have grown up in the age when these were considered too violent and nobody was allowed to be picked last or feel bad.
I’m glad that I was able to suffer the effects of being picked last for a team at recess in Grade 5.
Some lessons are best learned as a kid.
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Ken Barrett
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