So I'm going to try something a little bit different with this post. My mom brought to my attention today that I should combine my love for writing with my love of TV and try writing about the shows I watch. So here goes!
The most recent show I have been into is The Mindy Project. The show just finished it's third season, and if you don't know what it is, I'm about to tell you. Mindy Kaling is a single Indian thirty-something comedian who has spent the majority of her career writing for comedy shows such as The Office. She started out doing stand up in New York with her roommate. They wrote this comedy play/routine called Matt & Ben about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's friendship. They also performed it for quite some time. Just picture it, right now, in your head. A short Indian girl and a tall White girl acting as Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Sounds pretty entertaining, right? So you can imagine why Mindy Kaling would make it in the comedy writing industry.
I digress. The Mindy Project is about Mindy Lahiri(Kaling), female gynecologist, who works at a practice with three male gynecologists. Mindy is your typical thirty-something woman in New York City looking for a guy that she can spend the rest of her life with. But, she doesn't have the best luck in the male department. She falls hard and fast and gets her heart broken several times in the first two seasons. In the most recent season, she ends up dating her best friend in secret because they work together.
What I want to talk about mostly is the concept of falling in love with, or just plain ending up with your best friend. Everyone has heard they saying that you should "marry your best friend." I know this actually happens in real life because I know about 5 married couples that started as friends, became best friends, and ended up getting married. So what about the rest of us? What about those of us who have a best friend of the opposite sex but don't see that ever becoming something more, huh? What then?
Every girl knows that some of the greatest TV and movie couples started as really close friends. The absolute greatest example of this is Monica and Chandler from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. If you haven't seen it yet, there is a post on Buzzfeed that explains exactly why they are the best(http://www.buzzfeed.com/oliviaroat/why-youll-never-really-get-over-monica-and-chandl-ehzv). This is one of my absolute favorite posts on Buzzfeed. And that probably explains why I'm such a hopeless romantic. I want the kind of relationship like Monica and Chandler had. I want to marry my best friend. I want someone who knows why I'm such a dork about One Direction, someone that knows just how deeply I feel anything and everything, someone who shares my love of late night Macaroni and Cheese, and I want someone to want to know everything about me. That song by Rascal Flatts, Take Me There, basically says everything I want a guy to ever say to me. I want him to see where I grew up in Oregon, where I went to middle school and part of High School in Utah, where I lived in Florida and California, where I've taken pictures in Hawaii, where I spent so many weekends in a beach house on the Oregon coast, and most of all I want him to see my absolute favorite place in the entire world. I want to share my entire life story with him, and I want him to share his entire life story with me.
I'm not exactly sure how this ended up being more like a confessional rather than a TV review, but I don't particularly care either. If you read all that, you're awesome. If you skipped all that weird stuff in the middle, shame on you. I'm weird, get over it.
Anywho, I really want Mindy to wise up and take a chance on falling for her best friend, because really, it's what every girl wants.
