I know it's my age, but I must be terribly out of the loop, because I don't know this TV show at all and seeing this billboard peaks my curiosity as to what this show is about. The words, bold and black, yell out at the reader passing by, "do bad things", (why would any show use that as a tagline, ya got me), with the cast strategically placed, and a gal in the middle with her legs opened oh so casually....ummm. I'm used to seeing sexy women on billboards but must it feed the mind of the traffic passing by to behave badly? I find it beyond reprehensible. So I discover the show is about vampires. I laugh to myself.....OMG, okay, so how many are there now? The Twilight series, Vampire Diaries, Blood Ties, True Blood and now the new one called "The Gates", and possibly more I don't even know about. And really don't want to.
Am I missing something here? Why do people want to watch this kind of entertainment?? And be told to do bad things? Okay, I know, if I don't want to watch something like this I don't have to. But I do feel for the younger people who do watch these misguided dramas. I think about how it fills their feelings with the fantasy of vampires becoming a reality to them. How sexuality is all tied up with this genre. Then I think right away of the possibility, if there is nothing else to watch, this is what the youth gets.
So, I for one, will try and create an alternative. Try and find a way to bring a show on the air that the tagline will be, "love one another", "do good things", "be the change you want to see in the world." Another important phrase I learned in an Al-Anon meeting, "we are powerless over people, places and things" rings in my brain. Like someone pushed my doorbell, and it tells me, people are going to do bad things and watch vampire shows and end up living with the consequences. I just don't need to be one of them. I will continue to find ways to bring something for these young lives in the world that might appeal to the soul within them. Instead of emulating creatures that do not have one. I'm getting out the garlic and crosses, wish me luck.
As for what happened to me this last week that altered the way I see things, well, I'm gonna spare you the nightmare, because it actually turned into something I had asked for. You know the saying, "be careful what you pray for, you just might get it." I feel different about the material world at the moment and have trust that God will provide my every need. So what I initially saw as a disaster was a prayer answered.
Please God, help me remember this lesson and help me not be brought down by what I see in the world. I pray that for all of you too. God bless you all. Peace & Love....
I often wonder about our desire to do 'bad' things, and it's the subject for a blog entry, not a reply. Bad and Good are moral terms, and I suspect that the more we are told/forced to be 'good,' the more a part of us wants to explore 'bad,' as we all, as humans have a dark side, a Shadow, if you will. Some times we can use that Shadow by finding ways to take it's messages and run a little Light through them, like using the anger from an incident and using it to create a story, or project that helps others, like the mothers who lost their children to drunk drivers and formed M.A.D.D. Others succumb to the darkness completely, and wind up in black, dirty alleys with a needle in their arm. The choice, as always, is ours.
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