Thursday, February 11, 2010

Brangelina vs Bren

Two words: who cares? I can't walk into a drugstore without seeing tabloid magazines publishing different stories on the cover with catchy headlines, tempting you to pick one up, regardless if you're a fan or not of any of the three celebrities.

So what? The paparazzi could happen to have taken snapshots of celebrities on their 'bummed-out sweatpants' moment; they made speculation that Team Brangelina is having troubles. Like I'd have the time to look pretty when there are 6 kids to be taken care of. Well, besides.. how do we know if their nanny is or isn't a Supernanny?! Er, and why is there even a section on People that "celebrities are exactly like us"? Duh, we're all homosapiens; we'd go through similar stages in life regardless if there's less of us possessing referrent power.

Having said that, a partnership or any union of some sort takes two to tango. It requires sacrifice and compromise; this includes marriage. There's nothing seriously wrong with reading tabloid news; it is quite entertaining to be able to escape your own reality... just for a little while. It is always enlightening to be putting other people's problems under a microscope than our own. The problem with long-term relationships, however, depends on both ability to trust, communicate and respect one another. You work at it. People grow up; you either grow together or apart. Love isn't exactly a happy-go-lucky fairy-tale. Nothing worth having comes easy....

Hmm, think about it. What if the various tabloid magazines are having rivalries in coming up with the best "Bren reunion" story? It's a win-win situation. Whatever the outcomes, I don't really care....