It's the End of the World As We Know It ...
Am still processing everything and probably will be for a while. I have all these thoughts and emotions running thru my head that need to be sorted out. It's funny, because I had been so focused on the final scenes for the boys and how they would play that it wasn't until I was getting ready for bed last night that I had a moment where I actually sat on the bed (ha, I can't believe I'm admitting this!) and just let it all sink in that Van and Jake would really never be on the screen again as Luke and Noah and we won't see them play opposite each other (and kiss!) like that ever again.
I might have gotten a tad teary. Might have. At 3 in the morning. Yeeeaaah.
But with all that what I do know is that I've been watching As The World Turns since I was a little girl. And it's now over. This show that has been a part of my life since forever, that was there when I could barely communicate with my mom was the one thing we could always talk about. Gush about Molly and Jake's wedding or be shocked when Lily found out about Rose. I shipped Emily/Hal and wanted Carly to be with Craig and held my breath when Margo was raped.
I have laughed, cried, rolled my eyes, cringed, yelled, smiled, fought censorship, had my heart broken and healed and fell in love all over the course of 20 years of watching on and off. Because it was always there to go back to, comforting and warm with faces I knew. And it eventually brought the boys into my life and in turn so many people that I have fallen in love with. ♥
When I talk to elin_aurora on the phone, an ocean away, we inevitably end up talking about the show and past memories and storylines we loved/hated. Which, really. Kinda sums it up, right? That a show with so much rich history can be apart of each of our lives a half world away and we can connect over something that had been so important to each of us.
I kinda love that.
So with that I say goodnight, my dears. 54 years you took us for a spin and in the end became part of my existence.
I might have gotten a tad teary. Might have. At 3 in the morning. Yeeeaaah.
But with all that what I do know is that I've been watching As The World Turns since I was a little girl. And it's now over. This show that has been a part of my life since forever, that was there when I could barely communicate with my mom was the one thing we could always talk about. Gush about Molly and Jake's wedding or be shocked when Lily found out about Rose. I shipped Emily/Hal and wanted Carly to be with Craig and held my breath when Margo was raped.
I have laughed, cried, rolled my eyes, cringed, yelled, smiled, fought censorship, had my heart broken and healed and fell in love all over the course of 20 years of watching on and off. Because it was always there to go back to, comforting and warm with faces I knew. And it eventually brought the boys into my life and in turn so many people that I have fallen in love with. ♥
When I talk to elin_aurora on the phone, an ocean away, we inevitably end up talking about the show and past memories and storylines we loved/hated. Which, really. Kinda sums it up, right? That a show with so much rich history can be apart of each of our lives a half world away and we can connect over something that had been so important to each of us.
I kinda love that.
So with that I say goodnight, my dears. 54 years you took us for a spin and in the end became part of my existence.
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