Hey World, It's been a while. We all have guilty pleasures and mine come in the form of reality tv. This time around it's in an MTV show Are You The One? The show brings together various men and women and over the course of 10 weeks they have to determine who in the house is their "perfect match." The group only gets closer with opportunities to put couples in what's called a "Truth Booth" or at the end of each week seeing how many matches, but not who the matches, are they get right.
What I love about this show is that in 10 weeks you see how people operate and whether or not they are in it for their hearts or just to win the game. Did I mention if they get all 10 couples right, they win $1 million?!
When I watch this show it comes down to two themes are you in it for the strategy or are you in it for your heart? Attraction wins out at during the initial night. We go to what we know, the group thinks more with their eyes than with getting to know the individuals, well because, you're on a tv show, it's some exotic location and well the cast is usually very good looking.
Over the course of the few weeks and when your truth booth guesses and matchups turn out to not be working, you start to play the game with a little bit more sense. Hoping that you start thinking more with your head and heart.
Here's my assessment, for some leading with their heart puts them in the right path. For others it can be a distraction, that all they are left to lead with is their head. But when it comes to what happens after the game, what works out best?
Countless times in this show there are pairs that continue to be magnitized together but we KNOW that they are not a match and you wonder what are they risking? Not only are they risking the money that the other members are banking on, but they are also risking an opportunity to figure out who their possible true match is. Do you take yourself out of the equation when you don't allow yourself to be open to someone else. What are you actually learning, about yourself, about love?
The precarious situation arises, when the team gets the 10 beams, but you have been rocking with someone who you have allowed your heart to pursue only to find out that your head wins over more and your perfect match is someone you didn't give a chance. Aren't there questions that you end up thinking? Like- What if you leave the show with the person that you spent all that time getting to know, do you ever wonder what could have been with your "perfect match?" What if the relationship doesn't work out, do you call up your perfect match one day and say why not give it a shot?
In the grand game of reality tv around love, honestly I would rather be on a show like Are You the One? or Married at First Sight rather than shows like The Bachelor. At least with the first two there is some level of science involved, matchmakers are connecting you with someone that you could be more compatible with. It's for you to see the signs. With shows like The Bachelor, you end up risking way too much in the hopes that one individual sees you out of the 20 or so others that are also vying for their attention.
I don't know about the game myself, I am still figuring it out, but I think it's a little bit of both- Strategy and Heart.
That's all she wrote folks...
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