New Year, New Goals

  A new year brings a new type of excitement, a vigor, a fresh start. Before I lump myself into the same old category of those who think that this is their year, gonna make it the best ever, let me stop. Every year the gym gets crowded with new faces and their fat holiday bodies, curling and benching their way to awesomeness. And a funny thing happens; a month later our heros and heroettes are nowhere to be found. Where did they go? Ah yes, they quit. Here's why.
  I will come off as a total jerk here but bear with me and deal with it, since it's my blog. We as a society are getting dumber by the day. Really dumber. I noticed this around the time when the amazing show Arrested Development was cancelled because of low ratings. Why? Because people actually needed to rub two brain cells together to follow something the Hollywooders call a storyline. No, said the people. We want to not think, we want to stare and be numbed by the idiot box. Give us more reality shows, where we can watch and laugh at others who are also sitting on their couches. What maroons, they said. Is it me or is a reality show defined as anything you are actually watching. Reality means if it's there, then it's reality. Therefore all shows are reality.
  We want it now. So if Joey and Janey Gymgoer can't cardio, fling, flail and swallow the magic pill to be who they fantasize about in just 30 days they just quit. We are such a 'now' society, and world for that matter. It really is both sad and humorous. Sadly funny? Laughingly melancholy? Ok.