Fall is the perfect time for settling in, getting comfortable, eating carb-laden rich foods, and for binge watching all the new shows that premiere this time of year. That is, it would be if one had a televsion. Which I don’t.
I’ve been settling for streaming shows through Amazon Prime. It’s been great-they have some good shows created just for Amazon along with all the oldies from my teenage years (who am I kidding? they have all the great shows from my twenties, too).
This week I’ve been binging on a surprisingly good MTV show called Awkward. It looks like it started back in 2011. I’d never heard of it and just assumed it would be a modern day Saved by the Bell or My So-Called Life and in a lot of ways it is-it has all the high school high jinks, teenagers struggling with self-awareness, love, lust, puberty, sex. There’s definitely a lot more innuendo and sex than my old faves but mostly kids today are the same as they were in my day; self absorbed with just a tad of wherewithal to recognize the opposite sex and all that comes along with that.
Ah, teenage angst. Who doesn’t miss that?
Angst I can do without. The butterflies? I remember those fondly. Awkwardness? Yep. In fact, is it normal to still feel awkward at forty? I don’t mean with boys. Settling down and settling in squashes that kind of awkward, but I work with kids (alright, alright-young adults!) who are mostly twenty years younger than me. Awkward is trying to fit in with the young crowd. Awkward is trying to be authoritative while still, secretly, wanting to be liked by everyone. Awkward is having to ask college students how to use Snapchat and the meaning and pronunciation of the most current slang. True story.
This is my so-called saved by the awkward life and I’m okay with that as long as no one’s watching too closely.
