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Having to say goodbye

    

Garth McLennan

Editor in Chief
lor most of us, when we look
back upon our childhood, we can
often identify one or two things

that made the process of growing up just

a little bit easier. It could have been a

book that you read over and over again,

a family activity, anything really. I think

that for most of us, regardless of what it

may be, there’s something out there that
we can establish as a bit of a tether to our
younger days.

For me, there were, and I suppose
still are, two T.V. shows that I can look
to and see as major influences on me
growing up, LOST and Smallville. LOST
came to an end back in May after six
sensational seasons and Smallville is
currently in the midst of its own final
year, it’s tenth.

Saying goodbye to both shows has
admittedly been a bit of a hard process.

I know that they’re both just television

programs after all, but the fact is, I

grew up with those shows. The leading

characters in both of them, Dr. Jack

Shepherd and Clark Kent, respectively,

have acted as moral compasses for me.

They’re the two people I’ve always tried

to model myself after. So what if they

aren’t real people? The way I look at it is

there’s nothing wrong with striving for
perfection, and real people aren’t always
perfect.

Now, with both shows taking their
final seasonal laps, I’m faced, for the first
time in over a decade, of life without
either of them. It’s a strange feeling.

I mean, for basically all of my main
growing years, they’ve been there. When
things have gotten tough, they’ve been
there.

It’s almost, in an out of the ordinary
way, a bit like graduation. Both shows
taught me more than I ever imagined they
would when I first sat down to watch
them, and now that they’re over (or
almost over, in the case of Smallville), I
have to take what I learned and apply it
every single day.

I know that, in the end, they’re both
just T.V. shows, but there’s a different
feeling I get from these two, unlike just
about anything I’ve ever felt before.
Those two programs were a pair of very
strong links to my childhood, and now,
with them about to fade into the horizon,

it’s a bit like saying goodbye to my

_ childhood. There’s no question that I'll

always remember both shows and the
lessons they taught me, but now, I have
this feeling that it’s time to use those
lessons, to move on from childhood.

It’s time, as hard as it is, to say
goodbye.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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