Commentary: Reality Shows
8/21/13. MikeHuckabee.com
"Friends and family of reality star Gia Aleemand are still in shock over the news that she died Wednesday, apparently after trying to take her own life. The star of ABC’s “The Bachelor” was just 29. She was beautiful, famous and envied by countless strangers. She seemed to be well-grounded and happy. Once again, it serves as a sobering reminder to young people who worship celebrities and wish they could be beautiful and famous, too, that those things alone don’t protect you from the pains of life.
With the rise of reality shows, people feel they truly know the person on their TV screens, but there has yet to be a reality show that actually showed reality. We can never really know what goes on behind other people’s closed doors. If you want the truth, don’t look for it on television, any more than you should look to fame, beauty or wealth for happiness and fulfillment. That cautionary tale was first told over a century ago, in a poem called “Richard Cory,” about a handsome, wealthy man admired by everyone – a perfect candidate for “The Bachelor” - who suddenly, one night, killed himself. And in the poem, as so often in real life, we never do learn the reason why. "
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