Less than a week till we arrive back at school! These five weeks have come and go all too quickly. At first they were dragging by slowly and painfully, but towards the end I felt I had such little time left. I spent the entire break counting down the days that I wish I could somehow get back. I am truly going to miss my girlfriends who I got to reconnect with after all this time. I hope that we can keep up the good times during our last semester as undergraduates in college!
While doing my normal routine of sitting on my couch and watching multiple shows, I started to think about what my life has come to, which would be sitting, and watching multiple shows all day long. All of these soap opera shows such as Gossip Girl and 90210 have such dramatic plot lines. "Serena slept with Dan, who is the son of Rufus who is in love with Serena's Mother, who was married to Bass but then he died." Believe me, that is just the beginning of the extremely twisted but somehow intoxicating plotlines. There was this one episode where Chuck cheated on his beloved Blair by sleeping with someone else. Blair was broken for months but then forgave Chuck and became frenemies with him. The benefits of sleeping with your ex-boyfriend that you secretly hate and love at the same time. I started watching these episodes and through the light on the other side I saw myself as a character, and even all of my friends. That is when I realized that these twisted messed up plot lines are portrayed on T.V. because they exist in real life. This is why we watch these dramatic shows that sometimes repulse us. It is because we relate to these characters, we most of the time are these characters. Everyone has the lonely boy in their group of friends who is deep and truly looking for love, or the womanizer that is Chuck Bass, or even the snobby upper east sider who is always the queen. When did these shows start replacing our lives, and at what point in our lives did we become these characters? Are we all secretly twins of our guilty pleasures?
Who would I be ;)...more importantly, who would YOU be
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