Day 41: Movies and TV

I ran out of people and life experiences pretty quickly, so some of these are really reaching, haha. But when I was growing up, playing outside wasn’t something we did very often. I spent a lot of my time trying to avoid playing with my oh-so-obnoxious little brother (love ya, Robert!!), and so I watched a lot of TV shows and movies. I remember I used to recite the movie The Princess Bride at night when my sister and I shared a room; I watched it that many times. That was back in the days of beta max (you couldn’t find a teenager who knows what the heck that is nowadays…I’m old), when we had episodes of Strawberry Shortcake (best show ever!!!) and the movie Flight of the Navigator recorded.

I loved Full House, I Love Lucy, and Lois and Clark and practically every Disney movie ever made. I got most of my ideas about how life and love were supposed to be from the things I watched growing up. Everything had happy endings and good always beat evil. You would be hard pressed to find someone that says life ends up like it does in the movies…unless you asked ME.

Because my life HAS ended up like a movie. Open on a less-than-perfect childhood, me feeling unattractive, fat, and worthless my whole life. Enter series of friends and side kicks that help me cope and experiences that help me grow. Montage of a couple of bad relationships. Enter love, one that is EVERYTHING it should be. It’s EXACTLY like a movie: we argue, but the love that is always there outshines everything and we work through our issues the way we are supposed to. It’s a constant thing to work at. But I feel like my life right now is what you assume carries on when a movie rolls the credits and everyone is happy: that life goes on and good things come to the main characters, with downs to go with the ups.

I can throw out movie lines in ANY everyday conversation (and usually do, as my sister and husband will attest to!). I worked at Blockbuster, I’ve seen hundreds of movies in the theater in my lifetime, I’m sure. I LOVE MOVIES. They are one of my favorite things in life. And I love TV shows, especially reality. Shows like American Idol, Biggest Loser, and even The Bachelor/Bachelorette appeal to my love of people achieving their dreams, whatever that may be. My life would be very different without the love of movies and TV I have, I would be a very different person. So in a random way, haha, I’m grateful for growing up in front of the TV. =)