It's News to Me
"Boy Meets World" offers new way to unpredictable enlightenment
Kelley Dunn
Issue date: 2/5/09 Section: Commentary
Sometimes I wake up and wonder how I made it to where I am today. I get bored easily, but I'm constantly busy. I tell people I live a normal, boring life, but I've spent a decent part of that "normal" life living in another country. I look at celebrity gossip websites daily, hoping for a glimpse into the lives of the elite when, in actuality, I've met or talked to many of those exact people.
Truth be told, I have no idea how to describe who I really am. The closest thing I can do is give an analogy using the one thing that I know represents nothing but the truth, one of the few things in my life I've always been able to count on: "Boy Meets World."
I always wanted to be more of a Shawn Hunter: popular, funny, more intelligent than people realize and the owner of a fantastic head of hair. Simply put, I wanted to be the lovable rebel who is secretly poetic and brilliant, all while getting a new love interest every week, if you will. That said, I settled for what I saw as a more inevitable future, falling into more a Topanga-esque role: somewhat nerdy, fiercely loyal, a bit overachieving yet fully able to grow from that awkward, hippie-filled puberty stage into a confident, independent woman-also with fantastic hair.
Never did I think I would become the Corey.
Sure, he's the main star of the show-and one of my goals is to be the main star of my life-but he's also neurotic, awkward, slightly paranoid and kind of slow. Not to mention there was that whole pushing the professor through a glass window fiasco.
Somehow, through the twists and turns of my life, I've ended up like this. I can out-awkward anyone, at any time, in any situation. My attention span is completely shot. And, like my television twin, I too brought pudding to college.
It was a defining day when I realized that I'm the epitome of Corey Matthews. It's not what I who I thought I was going to be when I was a tiny preteen holed up in my living room watching new episodes of TGIF shows.
It's hard for anyone to fully embrace themselves, especially when they realize they've become the one person they didn't want to be in the sitcom that is life.
Corey Matthews isn't all bad. He loves his family and friends with everything he has. For every crazy failed scheme he comes up with, he somehow has enough charm to win back everyone he hurt within the half-hour episode.
He is a hopeless romantic, ultimately with a heart of gold-everything he does, he does because he thinks it's what's best for the people he cares about.
So I'm not the secretly poetic rebel. Leather doesn't look that good on me, anyway. With all of the upcoming plot twists and cliff hangers my life has to offer, I'll make it work. When life gives you lemons, you're supposed to make lemonade. So, if life wants to turn me into Corey Matthews, I'll tame my crazy head of hair, grab my pudding cup and awkwardly charm my way through life-one very special episode at a time.
Kelley Dunn is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and assistant news editor at The University News.
Truth be told, I have no idea how to describe who I really am. The closest thing I can do is give an analogy using the one thing that I know represents nothing but the truth, one of the few things in my life I've always been able to count on: "Boy Meets World."
I always wanted to be more of a Shawn Hunter: popular, funny, more intelligent than people realize and the owner of a fantastic head of hair. Simply put, I wanted to be the lovable rebel who is secretly poetic and brilliant, all while getting a new love interest every week, if you will. That said, I settled for what I saw as a more inevitable future, falling into more a Topanga-esque role: somewhat nerdy, fiercely loyal, a bit overachieving yet fully able to grow from that awkward, hippie-filled puberty stage into a confident, independent woman-also with fantastic hair.
Never did I think I would become the Corey.
Sure, he's the main star of the show-and one of my goals is to be the main star of my life-but he's also neurotic, awkward, slightly paranoid and kind of slow. Not to mention there was that whole pushing the professor through a glass window fiasco.
Somehow, through the twists and turns of my life, I've ended up like this. I can out-awkward anyone, at any time, in any situation. My attention span is completely shot. And, like my television twin, I too brought pudding to college.
It was a defining day when I realized that I'm the epitome of Corey Matthews. It's not what I who I thought I was going to be when I was a tiny preteen holed up in my living room watching new episodes of TGIF shows.
It's hard for anyone to fully embrace themselves, especially when they realize they've become the one person they didn't want to be in the sitcom that is life.
Corey Matthews isn't all bad. He loves his family and friends with everything he has. For every crazy failed scheme he comes up with, he somehow has enough charm to win back everyone he hurt within the half-hour episode.
He is a hopeless romantic, ultimately with a heart of gold-everything he does, he does because he thinks it's what's best for the people he cares about.
So I'm not the secretly poetic rebel. Leather doesn't look that good on me, anyway. With all of the upcoming plot twists and cliff hangers my life has to offer, I'll make it work. When life gives you lemons, you're supposed to make lemonade. So, if life wants to turn me into Corey Matthews, I'll tame my crazy head of hair, grab my pudding cup and awkwardly charm my way through life-one very special episode at a time.
Kelley Dunn is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and assistant news editor at The University News.
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