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I’ll admit it: I’m a fan of the show Glee. I may be well out of the target demographic for the show but having been a musical theater dork in high school, it hits a soft spot in my heart. Add in jazzy music numbers, men who can sing and some hilarious exchanged and I am a fan for life.
Except for that whole pregnant teen issue.
It’s not the pregnant teen that has me feeling icky. Teenagers get pregnant whether they’re taught about safe sex methods or members of an abstinence club like Quinn, the character in the show who is pregnant. What has left me feeling icky are all of the dramatic issues surrounding her pregnancy. Let’s take a brief look.
- She’s told her long time boyfriend, the quarterback to her cheerleader, that he’s the father. Except that he’s not.
- She’s considering adoption, an icky backward one to be mentioned in the next point, and not allowing either the alleged father or the real biological father any say so in the matter.
- The wife of the Glee club teacher is continuing a fake pregnancy and has asked Quinn to give her the baby. She’s gone so far as to fake an ultrasound and wear a prosthetic baby bump.
Ick. Ick. Ick.
Of course, they make up for the ick factor in other areas. Like song and dance and again with the men singing. I simply can’t turn away from what I know is bound to be a train wreck in the near future. Quinn did get kicked out of her parents’ house in the last episode and I chose, with my rose-colored glasses, to see that as a sign that the writers understood that their totally off-the-wall look at some of these things was inappropriate. Probably not. We’ll be wacky and zany again next week with fake pregnancies and more baby-daddy drama with adoption drama on top.
I tell you all of this not because I love the show so much but to remind you that your life is not a musical. Even if you regularly break into song and dance complete with jazz hands, your life doesn’t have to be so wickedly complicated. Sure, you may be pregnant. Yes, you are being faced with large decisions in your near future. Yes, you may be considering adoption.
But hopefully no potential adoptive mother has asked you to secretly give her your baby because she’s faking her own. Hopefully you aren’t disallowing the rightful father a voice in what the outcome of your decision will be regarding parenting or placement. Hopefully you’ve told the rightful father that he is the father! I’m sure your life is boring and dull compared to the antics of these high school students. Here’s the key to this particular post: it should be.
Life is not a musical. It is not a television series. While it may be exciting to watch these characters deal with crazy situations week in and week out, your life needs to be a calmer, saner, more honest version. Jazz hands optional. Lies and deceit may magically work together for good when the series wraps up for the summer but real life doesn’t always work that way. Lying rarely begets great results. People who want to deceive you for their own personal gain don’t have your best interest in mind. And while it may seem like a silly post, as in, “Who would believe or do some of these things,” the truth is that lies happen and people may want to deceive you. As such, you need to be honest with others and discerning when it comes to who you allow in your life.
Choose to live your own life in a simple, honest fashion. Leave the dramatics and deceit to the television characters. You won’t regret it when it comes down to the wire as you make these very important decisions.
