Is it wrong...

that i really want ty to stop rachel before she gets on a plane to london?
it seems like such a bizzar wish.
here are two people, whom i've never met, and never will meet becuase they are fictional characters.
although i suppose you could technically argue that by being an observer of their lives, i have met them, but i should really have no emotional connection. on the television screen, they're 2D.
in case you're unaware (as many people probably would be) i'm talking about a couple of chracters from neighbours. i'm not an avid follower of the show, and will spend as much time asking my sister 'what's going on?' 'when did they get married?!?' and the ever changing 'who likes who??'
the wonders of soaps. allowing us to walk in and out of peoples lives with no effort on our behalf, except possibly turning the tv on, or chaning the channel.
what is it about these peoples lives that has thousands of people tuning in every night to see how their life is?
i suppose thats really a bit of a rhetorical question these days.
becuase it's interesing. becuase they exprience things that some of us never have. they laugh, cry, fall apart, and always have a support network to fall back upon. and they love.
every week there seems to be another fight going on, whether it be an internal one or a physical one. and quite frankly, it's exhausting.
i mean, unless you watch every night, you never quite known what's going on. i'm not saying you can't pick it up, it's really not that hard. but i like knowing why. it's irritating i know, but if they're arguing, i want to know why? who said what, when and where? who else was there? does everyone know they're not speaking?
and then you've got to watch them struggle, as they pretend to not love someone, just so that person will 'do the right thing'. then there's the rush at the end of the episode as they realise they've been a fool. they just let the love of their life go, how foolish of them, they can't live without them. one minute they're so convinced that breaking up with this person is the right thing to do, the next they're grovelling for forgivness at an airport, or the front door of her new beau's place.
how can they change so quickly? how can their view of right and wrong shift so quickly as soon as they realise they've done something that hurts themselves. sure, they may have known it would hurt to say goodbye to them, and done it anyway, which i suppose is slightly commendable, but when they realise just how hurt they are by their own actions, they rush to rectify this, the thoughts of the other persons feelings now completely erased from their minds.
it is simply highlighting something we all know.
humans are selfish.
you are selfish.
i am selfish.
is there anthing in our lives that we do for absolutly no gratification?
i know this isn't an original thought. joey form friends had the exact same one. but honeslty, can anyone think of a single thing we don't do for at least one positive ramification?
we may hate our job, but we work becuase we need and like the money.
we give to charity to help others, and we feel good about ourselves because we've helped somebody less fortunate than ourselves.
it seems an inescapeable truth. has anyone any thoughts they would like to share on the matter?
quite probably not.
ah well.