Reality

Realism in the Webster dictionary is stated as, the quality or state of being real. So when we watch TV how do we know what we see as real? Even though the show is classified as reality, is it still real? An example of this is, the popular TV show called The Hills. I’m sure a lot of girls and yes some guys are aware that this show is classified as being a reality show, but did you know it’s not. In the show two characters by the name of Justin Bobby and Kristin Cavallari are going on but in reality they are not. "Everyone is trying to get story lines and create drama in their lives. It's just so... fake. There's no truth to it. At all." There are plenty of other proofs to show that The Hills is in fact not a reality show even if it’s said to be.

So if The Hills is not real then what is? Chuck Klosterman in his book, ‘Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs,’ writes about reality and what it is. He compares many movies and one that mentioned is Mulholland Drive. I myself have seen this movie and did not quit like it because I couldn’t really tell what was real until the very end. After the film you question what reality is and what is real. The fundamental question is, what is real? Well we all have a different perspective of what reality is because of what we have been exposed to growing up.

All I know is that anything is possible and that’s what I believe. Writing about reality I also came across something crazy and you have to be an open minded person to believe this or at least try to be.

The Time traveler’s wife a movie starring Rachael McAdams and Eric Bana is about a man who can time travel and meets his future bride when she was just a little girl. So it got me thinking about if time traveling was real and I heard from a friend that it was possible, and then I stumbled upon this clip. This man claims that he found a portal under his kitchen sink. So he went to fix his leaking sink by crawling through the bottom until he was able to stand up. He met the future him and videotaped it so people would believe him. The question is, is it real?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2sp-clMk8s

Now with such crazy things we see on TV and of all the new innovative experiments and cures, so with technology progressing at an alarming rate, is it still possible? Well, no one’s certain but I’m a believer and I do believe anything is possible.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
-Albert Einstein


Work cited

Abovetopsecret.com. 21 Apr. 2007. Web. Oct. 2009.
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Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein. Kevin Harris, 1995. Web. 11 Oct. 2009.
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html.

Kristin Cavallari: 'The Hills' isn't real, the producers tell me what to do. Christopher Rocchio, 30 Sept. 2009. Web. 11 Oct. 2009.
http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/kristin-cavallari-the-hills-isnt-real-producers-tell-me-what-do-9632.php.