life is like a TV series

sometimes people compare life to a movie. like they're the main character and going through this one plot and eventually it all gets resolved and everything is hunky dory. sometimes it takes longer for that conflict to get resolved depending on the person, so maybe in that case they would say it's just like an extremely long movie.

well, i disagree. i think life is like a TV series. i recently went with mike and some of his family to see the movie Unknown at the theater. it was a pretty good movie, but after it was over i was left feeling like something was missing. i thought about it for a few minutes, and i realized that i have been watching so many TV serieses (seri? how do you pluralize "series"???) recently that a movie just didn't have the depth and breadth that i have come to expect from a story. so like i said, the movie was decent, but i felt like there needed to be more to it.

so, to my point, a TV series does go into depth. a TV series has several conflicts throughout - often many at the same time. a TV series may end one episode leaving you in suspense and dying to watch the next to see the resolution, yet you watch the next episode and...what?! a new conflict?? and they didn't first resolve the one that you were hoping to see through?! haha. i used to hate that - i'd be all excited for the next episode only to discover that the focus was on some other side character or someone's history or something else unexpected and i didn't get to see things resolved as i had hoped...so i usually would go on to watch the next episode after that hehe :) but this is so much more like real life. some conflicts remain throughout the whole series - it starts in episode one and goes all the way through the season finale. other conflicts are introduced and resolved within one episode, while in the meantime the hero/ine struggles with the original conflict plus surely a few others that have arisen.

sometimes it's a surprise and a conflict that you had thought to be previously resolved, never to be dealt with again, pops up and becomes the current focus. that's kind of how i feel now in life ha. i already graduated from school and went through the decisions that come with getting a bachelor's degree: where should i go to school? what should i study? what classes do i take? where do i live? i remember thinking about all those things and going through the stress of trying to answer those questions. it was tough at times and i didn't see how everything would finally end up. yet, here i am, past all of those things. it got worked out. i didn't think i'd be needing to ask those questions again in my life, but i find myself asking them again with and for mike. i see him feeling stressed out by not knowing the answers, and i remember how it felt to not know exactly what i was supposed to do. but i also remember that things worked out and i made it to where i am, so i know it will work out with him too :) we'll get it! and i know that just like sydney bristow in ALIAS or jack bauer in 24 or michael schoffield in Prison Break, we'll figure out the answer amidst all the other conflicts/plots that are going on in our lives right now :)

i know that movies are shorter and don't leave as much time for character development and blah blah blah, but still. live is like a TV series...just sayin ;)