Decker-OUT

What's up world? I don't have much time to blog this afternoon but I thought I might as well. I had a calculus exam this morning. I don't think I did too hot. This means I'll have to really bang the final to pull off a B. Hopefully it won't be a problem.

Remember the show How I Met Your Mother? It's a good show. Well over the short course of my life so far I've always kind of realized something interesting about the show. It's my favorite show of course, offering the perfect balance of dramatic romance, off-the-wall comedy, and thought-provoking ideas. The show often brings about little theories of life. Some are true, some aren't. It makes me realize things about my life that parallel to the show, and in many ways blessed. 

But one theme of the series I've noticed seems to downplay the rest. It seems to be the ultimate irony of the show, and perhaps a thought intentionally embedded into the show by the writers. Let me explain...

The show has five main characters along with several others that come and go. I've noticed that each character, especially in the beginning, is an archetype. Barney is the epitome of the womanizer, Marshall and Lily are the epitome of the lasting relationship, and Ted is the epitome of the desperate bachelor. Like all fans of the show, I spent much of my high school comparing myself to one character. "Ted is so much like me! We both do crazy things and are just trying to find a girlfriend!" 

Then some things happened and my ego evolved and I stopped seeing similarities between Ted and I. I soon grew into Barney. No girl was worth my time, and it's because I was AWESOME! Just like Barney! Decker-OUT. The things I did, the stories I told, really my entire personality was dictated off of Decker Loyd being awesome, in a way living up to my suit and scotch wielding role model. 

Things all changed once more when my "no girl is worth is" mentality was immediately discontinued by a girl who finally was worth it. As time went on, I realized I'm not actually like Ted or Barney or any other character on HIMYM. They're just characters on a show for entertainment value. But after a couple of years my life began to parallel the show again, this time assuming the role of Marshall. My attempts at being awesome like Barney faded into realizing that my awesomeness has doubled with the addition of a companion to go on adventures with. Secret handshakes, stories of Miami and Morocco, and Saturday nights spent staying in are all shared with a girl; and that's what now makes me happy instead of going to Bardstown Road to pick up girls and make every effort to be awesome in the eyes of strangers.

But that then makes me realize something about HIMYM. The characters are such archetypes for a reason. They're the several sides of a person in their youth as the find out what they want from life. It seems almost everyone goes through a womanizer phase, a desperate bachelor phase, and hopefully at least a few years of happiness shared with a partner in crime. If you took all the main characters from the show, all of their goofy traits that distinguish them so well on television, and combined them into one individual, you'd have a genuine person going through life.

Albeit, this is just my theory behind the show and how it parallels real life. It's all just more information that goes into the massive equation that describes "life". I'm getting close to figuring it all out, and once I do I'll be sure to make a blog post about it. But until then all I have is a bunch of little isolated pieces that keep me preoccupied. Until next time...