Now I know a lot of you will think this is weird.. But my #FlashbackFriday is going to be a tribute to #20YearsOfSlaying
#BuffyTheVampireSlayer #Buffy #BTVs #HappyBirthdayBuffy #ItAllStarted20YearsAgoToday
Let me explain..
I just want to thank this show for helping me through hard times.. And giving me perspective on life.. This show taught me about love.. Betrayal.. Life and so much more.. It has helped me learn about the true meaning of family and how family isn’t always a blood relative..
Buffy inspired me throughout the years and still inspires me every time I re-watch it.. People who haven’t watched the show think this show is about a girl who fights vampires and demons.. But it is so much more then that.. It’s about life.. It’s about growing up.. It’s about death.. It’s about love.. It’s about family and friends..
People don’t understand my connection (or obsession) with this show and honestly I don’t know how to express how this show makes me feel.. I just connect to it on some deep level that I can’t even understand.. It’s not about the vampires.. Or how hot Spike was (not that.. That didn’t help things) it was always about how it made me feel when it was all said and done.. It gave me hope when I had none.. It would make me laugh when all I wanted to do was cry.. And it made understand things better when I was going through similar situations (minus the vampires and demons unfortunately)
Buffy will always be one of my favourite shows and I know years and years may pass and I’ll still find time to re-watch it again and again and continue to laugh at all the things I laughed at before (it is a sham.. But it’s a sham with yams.. It’s a yam sham).. Cry at all the things I cried at before (the hardest thing in this world is to live in it.. Be brave.. Live.. For me).. And get the same tingles I got the first time I watched it(from now on..every girl in the world who might be a slayer..will be a slayer.. Every girl who could have the power.. Will have the power.. Can stand up.. Will stand up)..
So in honor of Buffy turning 20 today I would just like to thank all the people involved in making this show what it was to me.. You changed my life as cheesy as that sounds (I wear the cheese it does not wear me) thank you for making great stories.. Relatable characters and horrible “big bads” that are metaphors for real world issues.. But most of all thank you for inspiring me to be a part of something bigger..
I would also like to point out that this anniversary falls on the day after #InternationalWomensDay and the day of the series finale of the #VampireDiaries that on multiple occasions has referenced and paid it’s respects to #Buffy
Finally I leave off with this..
“ There has been achievement..joy..good times.. And there has been loss.. Some people who should be here today..arent.. But we are.. Journeys end.. And what is a journey? Is it just..distance traveled? Time spent? No.. It’s what happens on the way.. It’s the things that happen to you.. At the end of the journey you’re not the same.. Today is about change.. Graduation doesn’t just mean your circumstances change..it means you do.. You ascend..to a higher level.. Nothing will ever be the same.. Nothing..“ 💓
