Call it what you want, reality television, fake, real, or a little of both, whatever the title, it isn’t interesting because Lauren Conrad isn’t with Brody, it’s interesting because you’re not with who you want to be with. Their lives are ours, or vice versa.

Reality television has been slammed in recent years, and while I agree that some of it is probably put on, or re-enacted/re-shot, it doesn’t make it any less of a real situation. Heroes, no offense, is what you could call fake. (Unless of course you actually know people with superpowers, but that’s a whole different blog.)

And that people, is the key to why reality television is so addicting. It’s simply relatable. How many of us have had the best friend who suddenly turns their back on us, how many countless times were we betrayed in high school? (One of my best friends received death threats, got trays of food dumped in her hair, and was literally “hunted in the halls”, and I’m from a school of 300 people, talk about Mean Girls. P.S. She’s alive, they’re now in jail…or will be soon). How many of us in college now pretend to be drama free, but realize our social lives are actually in shambles every second we aren’t too busy to NOT think about them?

Real Life Example 1: Isn’t it wonderful when you return home for the first time from college expecting it to be this big, amazing, euphoric experience…come to find none of your old friends are that excited to see you, and if they are, you’ve forgotten how much they suck at showing it. Or on the last day you’re supposed to see them, they find it fun to just walk away without saying goodbye. That’s our Hills reality, if only it could be caught on tape (sigh). The truth is, most of the things we see on reality television mirrors our lives more or less. We’re all a star to at least ten people in our lives (start feeling famous now, I certainly do).

Real Life Example 2: Facebook, is “us regular people’s” version of perezhilton.com or tmz.com. All those pictures you post, all those comments you leave, all those facebook statuses (I think the random person who left a comment on my last blog will be happy) are read by your following, not to mention half of that followings contacts you don’t even know, and those people’s parents (who decide not to send there kids away from home). We’ve all done it, posted pictures we know will “grab those headlines”, or created a unique little status to really get under that other persons skin (the internet really is a great invention, and yes…I do know what you’re doing). Facebook, while helping you to keep in touch with great grandmas everywhere (mines add request is still pending in limbo), is our own little reality television world, the only difference is we aren’t making $20,000 an episode for people to advertise on our lives pointless endeavors.

So, by the end of this blog, you should feel absolutely incredible, or possibly like you drew the short end of the straw. Why? Well, because you’re a celebrity…you just don’t get paid like one.