90210: The Dream.

Do you get sucked into the oh-so-perfect life of the ultimate Beverly Hills teenagers like I do? Their lives revolve around Dolce and Gabbana purses, Jimmy Choos, ridiculously amazing house parties in the Hollywood Hills and their platinum cards. Heaven springs to mind. 90210 is my muse, it captures the sun, sea and sex scandals of Hollywood teens right to my living room, and for one moment I can immerse myself in a fantasy of gorgeousness!



So is this the American dream of young girls today? Living the American dream - so over used, right? We speak about that dream as if it is something to aspire to have, or aspire to be, but shouldn’t we aspire to be something greater and with much more fulfillment than just that? Yes girls it really is just that. Nothing more than a false reality for most, but when I see girls just like me wish for their ‘dull’ (normal I would call it) lives to be that of Naomi Clark. I question that dream lifestyle of those Beverly Hills rich kids.



I am admittedly a 90210 geek because I have watched episodes long into the night via the internet, and yes I couldn’t wait for season 2 to show in the UK so have watched the aired shows on the net. But I am still not fooled by their lifestyle. I am aware it is pretty much unattainable, and so far removed from my life that if it suddenly was handed to me I would be so far out of my comfort zone it would be scary. Think Annie moving from Kansas and multiply it by 50!



Okay, I understand how we all have our dream plan, that list of those goals just too far out of reach that they pass us by, but we all still cling on and hope that a dream is not just dreamt about. But why America? I mean why the American dream? A nation of people, a continent of people looking to another county because there, supposedly, there dream lies. It just isn’t necessary. The lure of what America offers us Brits just seems the perfect antidote for our winter blues, with palm trees, endless beaches and the buzz of being on the edge of fame, I too could let my mind play with the idea. And then I think again. Yes the the girls of 90210 make us green with envy but would being rich, gorgeous and totally ‘popular’ really make you happy?



So please don’t be the one to compare your life to theirs, you can’t, it’s simple. Enjoy the program of course, but don’t be the one to grumble about how your crappy life would turn straight to fabulous if you were them, because frankly girls our lives are great but we can’t see that because it’s ours. We always will want what we can’t have - it’s life.