You read about breakups all the time in magazines and see them all the time on television, or the movies... And I suppose all this is supposed to help you understand what it's all about and how to handle them...

Anybody who's ever been through one will tell you that that is entirely untrue...

My point of views always have to do with the media, mainly because I study but mainly because the media is what one considers a technology of perception, that is it structures a point of view that the audience is expected to accept unquestionably, because as much as we have to study audience theory, the truth is the perfect audience for ANY kind of medium is the passive audience, where they just take in what they are being shown without putting any sort of judgements on them whatsoever... But anybody can tell you that that's entirely impossible, unless you sequester a group of people from the moment of their birth from any sort of outside influence...

Hell, the reason WHY we have audience theory is simply because it's entirely impossible to formulate a single text that will have the same meanings translated onto the audience as the intended meaning by the producers of the text...

Cultural theory session aside, the point of the article is to bring up the question of why the media is still so powerful, when you think about the fact that despite what they tell us on screen, we are still able to tell that what we see on the screen does not mirror real life...

In magazines they tell you that sometimes breaking up is exactly what you need to do, that right after that you'll feel oh so good about yourself... The movies tell you that you'll never be alone and that no matter who you are and what you do there's a gorgeous member of the opposite sex just waiting to discover your potential then sweep you off your feet so you can ride off into the sunset together...

In reality there is a tremendous shortage of gorgeous members of the opposite sex, especially ones who'd bother to stop looking in the mirror to look at you... There is also entirely no guarantee that when you break up with that special someone there's another more perfect special someone just waiting in the wings to make you forget the mess that was your life...

The truth is, there isn't a special someone for every single one of us... The truth is a lot of us end up alone for the rest of our lives, and only a select amount of us are lucky enough to leave this world with more than the priest and gravedigger by our gravesites...

Nothing in the world is perfect, and nobody marries the man/woman of their dreams... In the end you settle for that one person who happens to be there at the right place and time and then you spend the rest of your lives with them pretending you're happy when all you do is wonder about whether that one person who can make you happy is still out there and why you haven't found him yet...

Uhm... Yeah... Heh... Couple of people've been asking me to blog... I don't think y'all expected something like this though, eh?