The Day That Movies, TV Shows and Books Change Lives.

I'm a sponge.

Not the kind of sponge that soaks up water, not the sponge you can find in a body of water.

But still, I am a sponge. This is not be confused with a chameleon. I do not become like those I'm around, camouflaging into my surroundings. I am my own person.

But watching movies and tv shows, and reading books... I soak up what I watch or read.

For an example, when I was just a child I LOVED old movies, you would find me watching movies like Heaven Can Wait (1943) with Don Ameche (He died in 93 on my birthday, I cried when I found out.) I was in love with him, even though he was 85 when he died, I knew him as the handsome and charming  Henry Van Cleve *sigh* Anyway, I'm digressing. Point is Heaven Can Wait and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

In both Chitty Chitty and Heaven Can Wait there are different variations of "They kissed so that means they now have to get married." I didn't realize until watching both of these movies as an adult that they shaped my view on that matter, but my parents spent most of my teen years teasing me about how as a kid, whenever I watched a movie where a couple would kiss I would gasp and say "Now they have to get married!"

^A Sponge.

When I graduated college in 2010 I was very depressed by October of that year, having not found a job I started my own Jewelry business, but more than that I found this amazing show that had been canceled earlier in the year, Ugly Betty. The story of a young woman, considered ugly by the fashion world, thrust into that exact world as the assistant to a womanizer. The show is full of the ups and downs of these two people, from opposite worlds. It saved me from deep depression. I soaked up the show, learning life lessons from it, that it would take pages to write about, but that's not the point of this post. Charmed was the same way. General life lessons, and also time management lessons, they came from these shows.

Books are another thing I am a sponge about. I have four favorite books of all time that I've read tons of times each. Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks , and Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick. They've taught me so much about patience, kindness, naivety, and many more things.

Sometimes being a sponge is not so good. Entertainment can teach us about violence, anger, hate, especially in todays society. It's all about what we choose to surround ourselves with.

 Did anything you watched or read as a child or even adult effect you in a spongey way? (lol)