Footprints on the Moon

I didn’t post at all yesterday. I’ve been in a…. reflective mood the last couple days, and I’m still trying to formulate my thoughts on it, IF I want to post about it at all. But one thing I DID do yesterday was watch The Moment of Truth, after American Idol. It’s the show where people are hooked to a lie detector, and asked personal, potentially hurtful questions in the hopes of winning $500,000. I couldn’t look away. (Okay, I looked away long enough to set the VCR and go to bed, but I watched the rest first thing this morning.) It’s not the good kind of look away either, not really… more of a can’t look away from the horrendous train wreck sort of thing.

Take Catia. She was the wife of the first contestant. He walked away with no money, and she found out that he’s never used the internet to flirt with other women since they’ve been married. Great, right? Not so much… see, poor Catia ALSO found out that her husband has touched the women he works with longer than necessary, that he’d encourage her to have liposuction if she got a little bit pudgy, he hasn’t had children with her yet because he’s not sure they’ll be together for life, oh yeah, and that there is something that he’s done that would cause her not to trust him if she knew about it. Are these things that might be true for millions of men and husbands? Sure… but now the seed of doubt has been planted. She might have thought there were things that she didn’t know before, but now she KNOWS that there are things that she shouldn’t trust him about.

I don’t know. It’s an interesting idea. When I first heard about it, I thought it sounded like a fun show to watch. The more I thought about it though, and now that I’ve seen it, I’m not so sure. I’m all for honesty, I’m just not so sure this is such a great venue for it. Reveal these intimate secrets about yourself and maybe you’ll walk away with a little cash. Or maybe you’ll have succeeded in nothing more than putting cracks into the foundation of the the most important relationships in your life.

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