What I learned by watching TRASHY TV

"everything is not as it seems....it is much funnier"

Well at least that's the way it seems to me! I've been watching the never ending coverage of Tiger Woods sex scandel and those two camera chasing idiots who crashed a White House party. And as some would say there are 'teaching moments' in their escapades.

"bad is one of those concepts, that depends a whole lot on who is watching"

I guess we learned a whole lot about Tiger's morals but that's not the big lesson that I'm thinking about. The question that kept bouncing around in my head is this; why would a billionaire with public adulation, a model type wife and two beautiful kids, be screwing around with all those beautiful bimbos? The sterotypical manswer would be...because he can. But that really tells us nothing!

"oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive"

That's what my granny would say to me when I was a kid. Another one she liked to lay on me was....be sure your sins will find you out (or something like that). It's all coming back to me now...no man (or boy) has a good enough memory to be a good liar. Sheesh, I didn't know that her admonitions were still in my head. (ok, I'll admit to being a somewhat wild child). But I digress...oh yeah, what is the real lesson to be learned from Tiger's daliances?

"what most people believe is love is nothing more than selfishness"

I realize Tiger is considered by many to be the most competitive guy on the planet but trying to score with every barmaid in the country has nothing to do with love. Obviously, for all the billions of dollars, accolades, family and beautiful wife are not enough. As so often happens with celebrities, at some point they seem to have everything and yet still have a big hole they can't fill. Something was missing?

"how can you truly love someone else if you don't love yourself"

I'll guarantee you Tiger isn't loving himself today. And all that he has is not enough to make him happy. Seems strange. What Tiger doesn't have is love and therefore he is not happy. Oh his wife might love him, his kids no doubt love him but I doubt he loves himself and therefore can't love his wife in return. Love doesn't want to hurt, control or change. That big hole in him is causing a lot of pain and he'd better figure out how to fill it soon.

"a billion dollars won't make me happy (but I'd still like to prove it to myself first)"

Isn't it amazing that a person can be relatively poor and yet be happier than the billionaire? Damn we are always chasing false gods. Poor Tiger (never thought I'd say that).

Good luck Tiger...you can always buy some first class affection but I suspect you want more!

Padre Eduardo