| | LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT
One of my biggest dreams, other than to work in MUTV or become a journalist or florist when I grow up, is to be a Disney Channel kid. Imagine, attending school at East High, returning home to the Tipton Hotel, spending weekends at Miley Cyrus' beach house and going to Lava Springs for summer vacations. Can't imagine a life I'd rather lead, other than being a WAG of course. Troy Bolton would be the #1 boyfriend, Hannah Montana and London Tipton the bestfriends, Zac and Cody the trouble-making but still adorable younger brothers, and Gabriella Montez the maid. Perfect.
But I suppose the thing I really crave is the freedom they seem to enjoy. Have you ever seen Sharpay Evans buried in a textbook? Or Cory Baxter trying to memorise chemical equations? All they ever seem to be doing is having fun, sometimes getting into trouble/fights but always living Happily Ever After at the end of every episode, and they always discover that ultimately friends and family are all that matter. Cliched and unrealistic but it plays into our fantasies of a world where problems miraculously solve themselves and people really live by Jesus' seventy times seven forgiveness rule.
Of course, I'm not deluded enough to believe that life would or could ever turn out like that, no matter how much I want it to. I wouldn't even call that reaching for the stars, hallucinogenic drugs would be more appropriate. What I do instead, is treasure the things I have around me, realise - even if I still have to take the O levels at the end of the year - realise that it is indeed friends and family that are going to be the ones that will stand behind me all the way. Why should I doubt it when that's the case now; stressed but sustained by God, family and friends, knowing it'll be the same in five months time.
In the meantime, excuse me - Hannah Montana's on TV! |
| | Posted 4/20/2008 5:17 PM - 31 views - 1 comments
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