Boy Meets World

I've been watching a lot of Bot Meets World. As in all of in, non stop. My wife bought me the entire series for Christmas. I had forgotten just how well done the whole series is. The characters, aside from the goofy over the top TV aspects, grow quite naturally and act like real people.

I see a lot of myself in Cory and Eric. Cory for the determination, the devotion. Eric for the fun, but also the whole "tries hard but constantly just misses" aspect. I suppose the biggest parallel is in the Cory/Topanga deal. My wife and I have been together for almost 10 years now, married for over 4. We meet in high school acting class.

We started going out my Sophomore year, her Freshman. We are only a month apart in age, but my birthday fell right before the cut off, so I was one of the youngest in my class. We were each others first date, kiss, etc. Sure we had ups and downs, but we never broke up or any of those wild and wacky things that are so common on TV. She lived with my family for most of high school because her Mom moved away to Minnesota to a pretty unimpressive school system.

Thinking about it as I type, I suppose that is part of why I like Boy Meets World so much. It comes the closest to telling my own story. I can see myself in it.