Voyeurism

I adore watching people!! I am a sucker for any reality tv show, particularly those that take ordinary people and put them in unusual circumstances, or those that document people who go through extraordinary times or events, and I’m equally as happy sometimes just watching the real world go by and seeing how people interact with each other.

The festive time spent at Butlins, apart from being a restful few days of not having to do anything at all constructive aside from read, lounge about, and eat lots of yummy (prepared for by someone else) food, also gave me lots of lovely time to fully indulge in that most marvellous voyeuristic activity… people watching.

And what always strikes me most in this kind of family setting, is just how unsuitable some people look together.

You know the sort… the really good looking guys with the less than good looking women, the really attractive women with the less than attractive men… and I always wonder how that works. How these lovely looking ladies end up with sometimes frankly god awful looking men, and even worse how some beautiful men walk around with women who look like they’ve walked into the back end of a bus!

Psychology tells us that we tend to generate towards people of similar attraction levels to ourselves, that we even tend to have partners that have similar physical characteristics to ourselves, and I accept that in most cases this is the norm. Yet, occasionally, and in my observations, increasingly commonly, levels of attraction don’t match so well.

So how do they do it? How do ugly women pull half a dozen branches further up the ugly tree than themselves? And more importantly, how do they keep them?!!! Are they all remnants of childhood sweetheartdom who met when they were both young and gorgeous and years later only one of them has slid into older age and hideousness! Or are some people willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of families or situations that they find themselves in? Or perhaps other people just aren’t as shallow as me, and see beauty (or not!) is truly in the eye of the beholder.

But it isn’t just about physical qualities either. How do stupid, or boring, or spiteful people end up with intelligent, interesting, kind partners? Some people just seem so blatantly mismatched that it’s hard to believe either party could fulfil the needs of the other. But I guess other people have differing expectations for relationships than I do, and what is essential for some is not important to others.

I don’t really know where this post is leading. Not anywhere really. Just one of the random trains of thought in my head at any given time. But I do know that whatever the reasons, it damn well jacks me off to see lovely men wasted!