I think, for the most part, if you’re really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you.
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| — | Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother |
If she tells you you’re an idiot, you’re a lucky man. And if she does say “I love you,” she’s already broken up with you in her mind.
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| — | Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother ”Robin 101” |
Kids, you remember my first date with Robin. Well, here’s the thing: normal people, you know, people who aren’t your dad, usually take longer to say, “I love you.” Robin went through the usual stages. First, there’s the moment when you think you think it. There’s the moment you think you know it. There’s the moment where you know you know it, but you can’t yet say it. And then, there’s the moment when you know you know it, and you can’t keep it in any longer.
How I Met Your Mother, “First Time in New York”
GNB Death Star
Marshall Erickson: The Death Star’s gonna get built either way, and don’t you think the architect is pretty psyched to have that on his space resume? Yes, his design was flawed, in the sense that a single bullet fired into a particular vent would explode the whole thing ...
Ted Mosby: For all we know, that was the contractor's fault.
To quell my boredom.
Pick your five most favourite television shows of all time, in no particular order, and answer some questions about them!
Arrested Development
- Favourite Character: George Oscar Bluth, G.O.B.
- Least Favourite Character: Marta
- Favourite Season Finale: Season 1
- Favourite Couple: George Michael/Ann
- Least Favourite Couple: Michael/Marta
Boy Meets World
- Favourite Character: Shawn Hunter
- Least Favourite Character: Rachel McGuire
- Favourite Season Finale: Season 5, it gets bonus points for the Lee Norris cameo.
- Favourite Couple: Cory/Topanga
- Least Favourite Couple: Shawn/Angela
The Office
- Favourite Character: Jim Halpert
- Least Favourite Character: Kelly Kapoor
- Favourite Season Finale: Season 5, when we find out Jim & Pam are pregnant
- Favourite Couple: Jim Halpert/Pam Beasley, PB&J
- Least Favourite Couple: Jim Halpert/Karen Filippelli
That 70’s Show
- Favourite Character: Steven Hyde
- Least Favourite Character: Randy Pearson
- Favourite Season Finale: Season 3
- Favourite Couple: Steven Hyde/Jackie Burkhart
- Least Favourite: Eric Foreman/Donna Pinciotti
How I Met Your Mother
- Favourite Character: Marshall Erickson
- Least Favourite Character: Stella Zinman
- Favourite Season Finale: Season 2, “Legen - wait for it!”
- Favourite Couple: Marshall Erickson/Lily Aldrin
- Least Favourite Couple: Ted Mosby/Stella Zinman
Tied and twisted, flipped and forgetful.
“I’m not saying things will go exactly as you plan, or even would like to happen with that speck of confidence I know is festering in there somewhere. But why press “Stop” before you even get to see what the story is about and what it’s leading up to?”
This is the thing that I needed to hear. It’s something that I can think for myself a thousand times over, and I’ll never believe it. But to have someone else say it, makes it seem a little more rational.
See, that’s my biggest problem. I don’t feel rational when I feel things. Or maybe it’s that I’d rather not be perceived to be irrational. Either way, I hate the topsy turvy feel of letting myself feel these things that I feel. I’m so inclined to want to squash them and end all of those things that come with it, but dammit, there’s so many beautiful moments too. When I look back at the last nine months I can think of some truly wonderful memories, and they all make me smile. Despite the unrest and twisted feeling in my gut at times now.
I’ve been so wrapped up in distracting myself because, as it was put to me, the gears in my head are rusting and bending. I rewind things and play them again, looking for details that I must have missed either to validate what I feel or to invalidate it. One or the other, but never both. My usual method for getting out of this heartfelt funk is usually to pick a show and watch a marathon of it. Either from beginning to end, or just whatever I can scrape together from both the internet and my personal collection. Lately, that’s been How I Met Your Mother.
The worst part of marathoning HIMYM when I’m feeling like this, is that I relate everything to what I’m experiencing. I’m watching scripted relationships build and break, all the while propelled by jokes and friendships I envy (don’t get me wrong, I adore my friends, but… there’s something about the group on HIMYM that I wish I had). It’s probably a very reasonable reaction to have, but I always feel it’s so juvenile. To watch things and go “Oh, that could happen.” But in reality, most of what I’m saying is “I want that.”
I want so very many things. And almost all of them are more essential to my life than the one that I’m so hung up on. I mean, seriously, I should be much more concerned about my independence from my parents, my career and paying the bills. But no, I’m concerned with how I feel about someone. Feeling like Ted, in that I want something that seems perpetually out of reach. Feeling like Robin, in that I am afraid to let myself want it, because it may mean putting other things aside. And I just want to have what Marshall and Lily have. I want to be able to high five over how many times we could have sex in 45 minutes.
Anyway, the point is, that the last couple of days I’ve been so ready to just hit stop. To play along like my life is a tape in a player, and to take it out and try a different one. See the next episode, before I’ve even seen the conclusion of this one. But maybe I should let it finish. See if, in fact, this is a short story line, or a long one. To find out if, in the end, I’m a rabbit or a duck. Or, maybe to find out that he’s a rabbit and not a duck. If I am appreciated as someone who is smart, beautiful, funny, and loves Star Wars. There’s no way to find out if I move on to the next story line and skip the ending.
Being in a couple is hard. And committing, making sacrifices; it’s hard. But if it’s the right person, then it’s easy. Looking at that girl and knowing she’s all you really want out of life, that should be the easiest thing in the world. And if it’s not like that, then she’s not the one. I’m sorry.
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| — | Jason Segel as Marshall Erickson on How I Met Your Mother “The Wedding”(S1xE12) |
