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Is optimism becoming "extinct"?
Well it appears that our hopes for looking at the optimism in people have been dashed yet again. Looks like the balloon boy (aka, Falcon Heene and his family) situation was a hoax after all! The investigation is still ongoing and charges probably won’t be brought against Richard and Mayumi Heene until sometime next week. A man by the name of Robert Thomas has come forth and said that he used to work with Richard Heene and makes the claim that Richard once said to him that it would be somewhat easy to create a media stunt that could possibly result in a reality television show.
As unfortunate as it is, most of the country actually believed the Heene family when they said it was an honest mistake when the balloon incident went down; including Sherriff Jim Alderman and the rest of the Larimer County, CO police department. It all began to unravel when Falcon made an accidental slip up on Larry King Live, when he said “you guys said we did this for the show” to fill in host, Wolf Blitzer. Even then, some viewers still had faith in the integrity of the family and continued to think that Falcon was only being a lively six-year old. Turns out, we, as a nation were fooled yet again. But should this situation change how we judge and feel towards people?
As a society (especially Gen Y’s) we are glued to our televisions, whether we are fixated on the newest reality show or the latest catastrophe made by an out of control teen celebrity. Has this latest incident involving the Heene family hurt our ability to properly judge a person by their actions over a period of time, or has it added to our quickness to judge a book by its cover (so to speak)? Or, has it not had any affect on our judgment of people what-so-ever?
Then again it definitely does not help when there are individuals who are starved for the spotlight and would do anything to have the attention set on them. What happened to integrity and a person’s self worth? Have we become that shallow that we feel the need to gain the attention of a whole country, instead of being perfectly content with the wholesome attention that we receive from our family and friends? Unfortunately, there will be people like Richard and Mayumi Heene who need that kind of attention. Hopefully the majority of society who are not like that can go throughout their everyday lives knowing that they’re making an honest attempt at making a name for themselves. You may call me an optimist, but what is wrong with that now-a-days?
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