Not to prolong this Arnold thing, but the news just keeps getting juicier! The latest headline: “Arnold’s Two Sons Born Days Apart.”
CNN is reporting that California birth records show Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son with a member of his household staff was born the same week as his son with wife Maria Shriver. You can’t help but rewind to nine months previous and speculate on the logistics of that. Or not. Might be TMI.
Apparently divorce records show the housekeeper’s husband left her a few weeks after she gave birth to Schwarzenegger’s son. Regrettable, but understandable. Another marriage down the tubes.
Now Arnold and Maria are Splitsville and Maria and her kids are spotted frolicking on the beach while Arnold is seen driving in his fancy car – alone. We like our celebrities to do at least some atonement, and for Arnold, that may be enough for us.
Can’t help thinking about “Mad Men’s” Don Draper’s observations about what we want:
“When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere; just ask him. If you listen, he’ll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he’ll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect. And then he’ll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn’t perfect. We’re flawed, because we want so much more. We’re ruined, because we get these things, and wish for what we had.”
We know the world’s not perfect and yet we pursue the ideal. That’s the reason social science experts say the number of U.S. households with married couples is declining. In Michigan it’s down to 48 percent, according to the latest Census figures.
“People do value marriage, but it’s more like an ideal, not a necessity,” news reports have quoted Bill Doherty, University of Minnesota professor, as saying.
If we’re chasing the ideal, no wonder we’re disappointed – and no wonder we ourselves disappoint.
