Drama Demonstrates Actual Thought-Provoking Ideas...
Can you believe this is only the tip of the ice berg brought on by a teen drama from Canada? Creepy I know...
So I was watching a marathon today. This boy on the show had, in a previous episode, pushed his girlfriend causing her to hit her head. She suffered serious injuries including a coma, which lasted for a while. After he came back to school the next year, the whole school shunned him and made his life a living hell. The part that got me was that whenever he tried to have a conversation with someone he would try and apologize for everything he did before and say that he had changed and was going through counseling and no one would listen to him. He tried so hard to show everyone that he had changed and all they did was turn it around on him and beat him up. Then again, was it true that he had changed at all?
I was thinking a lot about it. He was asking for a chance at forgiveness and they shot him down. How many of us do the same thing every day about the smallest things. Their circumstances were a little more complicated but what would we have done in their situation. True it could have been just a show exaggerated for the maximum effect as a teen drama for high ratings but it raises some interesting questions. Can people change? About some things? Everything? Does it matter? Is the world truly that f***ed up that no one gets a second chance whether they deserve it or not? Remembering the past is one thing but reliving it is another. You can’t change it and most of the time it only brings up painful thoughts anyway. Why waste time on that? Remember the past and learn from it. Don’t rehash if it’s destructive.
Now I sound like some weird, optimistic, I-don’t-know person. That’s what I get for watching some teen drama I guess. Whatever. Night.
So I was watching a marathon today. This boy on the show had, in a previous episode, pushed his girlfriend causing her to hit her head. She suffered serious injuries including a coma, which lasted for a while. After he came back to school the next year, the whole school shunned him and made his life a living hell. The part that got me was that whenever he tried to have a conversation with someone he would try and apologize for everything he did before and say that he had changed and was going through counseling and no one would listen to him. He tried so hard to show everyone that he had changed and all they did was turn it around on him and beat him up. Then again, was it true that he had changed at all?
I was thinking a lot about it. He was asking for a chance at forgiveness and they shot him down. How many of us do the same thing every day about the smallest things. Their circumstances were a little more complicated but what would we have done in their situation. True it could have been just a show exaggerated for the maximum effect as a teen drama for high ratings but it raises some interesting questions. Can people change? About some things? Everything? Does it matter? Is the world truly that f***ed up that no one gets a second chance whether they deserve it or not? Remembering the past is one thing but reliving it is another. You can’t change it and most of the time it only brings up painful thoughts anyway. Why waste time on that? Remember the past and learn from it. Don’t rehash if it’s destructive.
Now I sound like some weird, optimistic, I-don’t-know person. That’s what I get for watching some teen drama I guess. Whatever. Night.