All Because Of A Television Show

My regular readers should know by now how much Criminal Minds has shaped my life. I don’t know if it’s the quarantine or overall stressful time we are in at the moment but my obsession with this show has amplified.

I am on my second round of watching this fifteen season show since March. My Tik Tok account has become a fan page for the show, where I have joined the community that is “Criminal Minds Tik Tok” which has grown so big that the cast members and other social media news sites have discovered this special community.

I have even dived back into the world that is fan fiction, which the last time I did that was freshman year of college when I was into Once Upon A Time. I even had three dreams in a row one morning that were Criminal Minds themed. Ever since I had discovered this show in high school it became an important part of my life and who I would eventually become.

I know for most people this attachment to a show can seem weird. There are better things you could allow your mind to focus on. Television has always been a big part of my life. For the longest time, I thought it was wrong to be interested in it. Where later in college I discovered media communication and the good that can come with the entertainment industry. I learned that there are so many different forms of entertainment. Also, there are so many jobs in the entertainment industry that don’t involve acting which for the longest time I thought was the only way to be in this world.

Different shows I have gotten into over the years have given me a community that I didn’t even think could exist. When I was in middle school and high school the show 24 was my life. It got me through a lot. During this time I tweeted so much about this show where I then discovered other fans of 24. Some of them, in the beginning, I used to talk to almost daily. We have since shifted. Two women though have stuck with me and are two of my biggest supporters. It’s crazy to me. Two strangers who decided to love me and become my friend. I have yet to meet them, but can’t wait for the chance to travel to England and back to Tennessee to meet these beautiful souls. All because of a television show.

Different shows throughout the years gave me a thing to look forward to and help me get through each week when at the time I didn’t have much to live for.

Criminal Minds has always been different. It gave me a love for criminal justice and the decision to major in it when I entered college. Though I changed my major shortly after (and then again and again) it was the major I almost went back to several times during my college career.

As I evolved and seasons of the show continued I was taught many life lessons. Both the actors and characters became a family. It was one of the first times I was shown that you could feel like a family with someone who wasn’t blood. There was a light shown on the possibility of what life could give me if I began to let myself open up.

With the many different storylines in this show, you get to see many different hardships that people go through. You continuously witness the endurance people have to fight despite what life may have thrown them. You also witness people who choose to harm out of revenge or simply because of their childhood. You are reminded that despite these things that may have happened to you it doesn’t mean you should inflict your pain onto others.