One of my favorite television shows is One Tree Hill. I absolutely love that show and all the artistic dynamics it has in it. I even got my husband hooked on it, and it was recently when he and I were catching up on new episodes online that I came across the topic for this post. There was one character, Alex who came on the show as an actress who was rehabbed from alcohol abuse and then became a model for another character's (Brooke) clothing line. She hit a few rough patches with drugs and relationships, tried acting and screen writing on for size and was now, according to the episode we were then watching, recording an album as a new singer! And my husband goes, "Wow! Isn't it great how you can do anything on tv?" And that got me to thinking about life on television. Everything always seems better, even the bad doesn't seem so bad when its on tv. You can go from being a crack addict to a princess all within one 24 episode season. Television seems to have no limits or boundaries on what's plausible or even possible. Sometimes it seems that you truly can do anything. But that is not at all how real life works. In reality, you do actually have to leave the coffee shop, and in real life, no college student would ever be able to afford the clothes and shoes she is, or have a perfect bounce and curl in her hair after it rains. No, what really happens, is: you fight to squeeze into the jeans you've had since high school while trying to ignore the freshman fifteen you've got going on and when you try to straighten/curl your hair it never ends up the way you want; one side always looks better. You spend more time in class than you do at parties and cannot afford to go on trips and dates the way they do on tv. T.V. doesn't show all of the sucky parts that happen in real life and you can't just fast forward through all the hard and boring parts that happen along the way that you don't want to live through. In real life 45 min isn't nearly enough time to have a good cry, or study for an exam or makeup with a friend or have an epiphany on life that changes your entire perspective on life. The boring parts are necessary and as time happens along, you start to understand the importance of it all. Sometimes I can't wait until the parts of life I am waiting for happens but I realize that then, I'll never be happy with where I am in life if I am always looking forward to the next step. So I try and find contentment in wherever I am to avoid missing out on it when the time is passed. But I think we all struggle with it at some point especially while we are still young and it is a lesson to be learned as time goes on.
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