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The Sarah Mclachlan Theory

So, I don't know how many of you are fellow lovers of what was in my opinion the best television show to ever hit the WB, and I would venture to say one of the top 3 best television shows ever made, Felicity. This show, which sadly only lasted 4 seasons, literally had an impact on the way I look at life, relationships, and people in general. The premise of the show was the main character Felicity and her journey starting with her freshman year of college through her senior year, which ironically was my freshman year of high school through my senior year of high school! Amazing, I know! (Also amazing that it only took her 4 years to graduate with no summer school, and changing her major from pre-med to art, but that's another story entirely).

One of my endeavors over spring break was to just allow myself to watch as many of the Felicity DVD's as possible. So, sickly enough I made it through all of seasons 1 &2 in just 2 days/nights; Sick, I know, I actually watched ALL of season 1 in one night. Anyway, so It was funny to watch these episodes now being a junior in college. Because in watching it the first time around, I was trying to live vicariously through Felicity. I wanted so badly to just go away to a school in New York, live so independent and free, as college people got to do, and to have so much drama in my life; Is it Ben, or is it Noel? And now having been through almost 3 full years of college, I discovered that Felicity and I , we had two very different college experiences, with a few exceptions. In rewatching the first art class Felicity took after she dropped Pre-Med and switched her major to Art, I felt like I was looking in a mirror. Art was always something she had looked at as a special hobby for herself, a passion, but one saved just for her eyes only. In watching her go through her first College Art Critique and walking away feeling like a failure, like what was she thinking making herself vonerable enough to display her Art for scrutiny in front of people who were so naturally gifted inthis area; that was my experience exactly. But then in many episodes to follow she began to realize that this was going to take time and work and effort, and yes people were going to think she was crazy, but she was following her passion and loving it.

In one of the last episodes I watched I was left with a thought that I began to ponder in my own life. In the show, Felicity's roomate is telling Ben, who's in love with her, how she knows that Felicity is still in love with Ben. Her answer: Sarah Mclachlan. She tells Ben how when she first arived to New York in love with him, Sarah Mclachlan's album Solace never left the cd player, until months later she met someone else and then Sarah was gone. Well when that relationship ended and months later Ben comes into her life again, It was Fumbling Towards Ecstacy and Surfacing , two of Sarah's other albums that were switched off 24/7, then eventually when the break up hit, placed back on the shelf. Then at that time when Ben was inquiring about Felicity's feelings, the roomate tells him that Sarah had made a recent comeback in the previous couple of weeks with the newest at that time Mirrorball album, and therefore her roomate was able to correlate Felicity's feelings for Ben based on the air play in her room of Sarah Mclachlan. Being a fellow lover of music, I was trying to see if I do this in my own life; listen to a certain artist or type of music more so than others on an emotional basis, and for sure the answer would be Yes. I will have to observe this more carefully to see if I can make a distinct correlation, but it's definitely something to think about.

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 1:10 AM