Day 7- A show or movie that has changed you in some way, and how.

I would have to say 16 & Pregnant. This show scares me. I like watching it, but, honestly, the more seasons that happen, the more depressing the show gets. One particular episode of the show that really stuck out to me was one with a girl who loved being on the racetrack. I don't remember what her name was, I sort of remember what she looked like, but honestly, the biggest thing I remember about her is how terrible her life looked. I mean, she got married, and couldn't even afford a honeymoon. She married a guy that wore a racing uniform instead of a tux. I sat there, watching that episode, wondering how on earth she could possibly seem so happy. Stuck where she was, living with her mom, barely even able to afford to buy a barn to use as a house for herself and her husband and child. She wasn't going to go anywhere, and she seemed content with that. Honestly, she didn’t seem to mind that much that she was going to be stuck in her small-town life for the rest of her life, and that she was no longer going to be able to hang out with friends so much, or meet new people, or go to college. Her mother only seemed to think that it matter that she make it through high school. Honestly, watching that show scared me so much. Probably because that is the complete opposite of the life I want to have. I want to go places, I want to see the world, I want to go to college, have an amazing honeymoon, marry a man a really love and have his child because I want to, not because I was young and careless. I want to have a lot of boyfriends, and I want to experience love, real, actual love, the kind that keeps you breathless and terrified and vulnerable. I guess that watching that episode changed me because it really made me think. It has encouraged me to be careful, and wait for growing up too fast. Especially in things like sex, but also in getting married, etc. It can wait, and so can I.