The other night when I couldn't sleep I sat up and wasted valuable sleep minutes talking to the friend featured in on off on off. We chatted in general about quite a lot of literal 'shit' before ending up on the topic of him and the girlfriend who are now moving to Perth to pursue his new job. Then end of this conversation related to his desire to buy a house as he will be earning big money. After telling me all this he casually slips in the part where he plans to make the girlfriend sign a prenuptial agreement at this point. This has supposedly been a discussion they both agree on. Now my first real thought, which I also expressed was good luck with that, you don't even have the man balls to go through with breaking up with her let alone make her sign a pre nup, but my second was offensive to your relationship much? Even to theirs.
Pre nup's are never really something I have given much thought to because really, I don't have a whole lot worth protecting, and most of what I do have I have because the husband and I have worked towards it together. However it did really make me stop and ponder what I would do if I had actually been faced with the proposal. I guess to some extent I do get the whole point and sad reality of marriage statistics behind them, but I still can't help but think if your considering a pre nup, you might as well be honest and say either of the following to your partner.. a)I love you.. for now.. and probably don't see this lasting that long so I just want to make sure you can't touch my shit when it all falls apart.. or b) I do love you, and I'm not planning on this being any less than forever, but I think your childish and nasty and if it were to break up I'd need to have this in place or you would take all my shit. Obviously it isn't really as black and white as that, but surely even if it was a mutual discussion, on some level you would be offended.. unless of course your both loaded and protecting your own, but I'm sure in most cases someone is loosing out.
Really wish I knew people who actually had pre nup's or had the proposal and were so offended that they left the relationship as the topic has me uber intrigued. What are your thoughts fellow bloggers?
Friday 8 April 2011
Saturday 2 April 2011
Media Hype.
I am not someone who really pays a whole lot of attention to the news, media or my wider world in general. I keep up to date via following news channels on twitter, my daily ritual of watching sunrise as I get ready for work (my mother would be proud), the radio for the short time I am ever driving and the ninemsn page that is the home page on my internet, which is only there mainly because I am to lazy to change it. If i actually find anything that takes my interest from these sources then I will generally seek out further information on the story from there.
I made a decision some time ago to really stop investing my time in following most things media due to an event that happened when I was in my teens. My boyfriend and I at the time were the first people at the scene of a car accident where a young man who was similar in age to myself died at the scene. What turned me off about this was that the news crews arrived before the rescue services and continued to film throughout the rescue efforts. Of course this happens on a daily basis, but when you witness it.. the disgust is intensified. From then, for the most part I just got sick of the hype (mostly false) that media creates around everything it draws attention too. So I just stopped bothering.. except for my enjoyment of buying goss magazines and then not reading them until they are out of date because I like to laugh at the articles that were bullshit. To a point this makes me slightly less aware and maybe even a little narrow minded about the world, but when I feel a story is justified I do make the effort.
This week every time I have turned on the television, turned on the computer or scanned a magazine it is all about Delta and Brian the split.. who cares. How is it possible this is even major news. Then this afternoon I sit down at the computer, open my internet browswer and see the heading 'she endangered her baby' staring at me on ninemsn. I probably wouldn't have even clicked on it had I not of been looking for something to entertain me for the remainder of the afternoon, but I did. The basics of the article was that Jackie O fed her baby as she crossed the road (feel free to have a read if you have not already had the pleasure http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8232101/jackie-o-endangered-her-baby-minister) and due to this was compared to Michael Jackson dangling his child from a window and then it even made reference to her choice to return to work a short time after giving birth. Seriously? Dramatisation much. I'm not sure if Pru Goward became the NSW families minister but hoping she doesn't get the seat again. What a turd. It was nice to see some positive comments in the article as well, but my main gripe is why is it even an article. The woman crossed the road holding her baby and a bottle, she didnt run, spin the baby around by its foot or even do the alternative option and let it scream it's lungs out in hunger.
The media needs something better to do with it's time. Imagine what could be achieved if the media foccused on useful and necesarry 'news' for the most part. Imagine even what I would have achieved if I had not sat here for 30 minutes giving the article more unecessary attention. grrrr. the end.
I made a decision some time ago to really stop investing my time in following most things media due to an event that happened when I was in my teens. My boyfriend and I at the time were the first people at the scene of a car accident where a young man who was similar in age to myself died at the scene. What turned me off about this was that the news crews arrived before the rescue services and continued to film throughout the rescue efforts. Of course this happens on a daily basis, but when you witness it.. the disgust is intensified. From then, for the most part I just got sick of the hype (mostly false) that media creates around everything it draws attention too. So I just stopped bothering.. except for my enjoyment of buying goss magazines and then not reading them until they are out of date because I like to laugh at the articles that were bullshit. To a point this makes me slightly less aware and maybe even a little narrow minded about the world, but when I feel a story is justified I do make the effort.
This week every time I have turned on the television, turned on the computer or scanned a magazine it is all about Delta and Brian the split.. who cares. How is it possible this is even major news. Then this afternoon I sit down at the computer, open my internet browswer and see the heading 'she endangered her baby' staring at me on ninemsn. I probably wouldn't have even clicked on it had I not of been looking for something to entertain me for the remainder of the afternoon, but I did. The basics of the article was that Jackie O fed her baby as she crossed the road (feel free to have a read if you have not already had the pleasure http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8232101/jackie-o-endangered-her-baby-minister) and due to this was compared to Michael Jackson dangling his child from a window and then it even made reference to her choice to return to work a short time after giving birth. Seriously? Dramatisation much. I'm not sure if Pru Goward became the NSW families minister but hoping she doesn't get the seat again. What a turd. It was nice to see some positive comments in the article as well, but my main gripe is why is it even an article. The woman crossed the road holding her baby and a bottle, she didnt run, spin the baby around by its foot or even do the alternative option and let it scream it's lungs out in hunger.
The media needs something better to do with it's time. Imagine what could be achieved if the media foccused on useful and necesarry 'news' for the most part. Imagine even what I would have achieved if I had not sat here for 30 minutes giving the article more unecessary attention. grrrr. the end.
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