For the past five seasons spanning roughly four years, I have been drawn into, in my opinion, HBO's most controversial yet most well-written series to date: "Girls." Starting at a naive age of 16, my TV brought me into a world that is more real and raw than anything my 1.4 square mile long town had ever shown me.

Up until Lena Dunham's new take on female protagonists, one of the only shows women were able to say they could relate and learn from was the infamous series "Sex and the City." One might think the shows parallel one another, but to me they couldn't be any more different. While "Sex and the City" follows established relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw and her successful affluent friends around New York City, "Girls"takes a less optimistic and realistically honest approach about prevalent topics and issues; to me the most important one being change.

The show focuses on Hannah: a young writer struggling with OCD while being trapped in unhealthy relationships, her roommate Marnie: a classic type-A personality that wants control in every aspect of her life, Jessa: the free-spirit that seems to not have a care in the world with an underlying addiction, and Shoshanna: Jessa's cookie-cutter virgin preppy college-aged cousin. The four girls face an array of challenges and bring up scenarios that had previously been absent in television as their friendships, love and professional lives evolve.

In the first four episodes of the first season alone, "Girls" managed to cover abortion, sexual transmitted diseases and sexual harassment. That's more than most shows, if any show, has brought into homes after years of being on air.

Some of the plots are very extreme and most people cannot relate to one character in particular throughout the entirety of the show, but perhaps for just one small scenario in a character's life. Although comedic, Dunham and her creative coworkers have an ability to sculpt and craft these perfect emotional scenes that hit too close to home for many viewers.

I remember me and my friends watching the first season and casting one another to be one of the four girls. And today those comparisons we once thought were spot on, couldn't be any more off. Why? Because none of us are the same person we were four years ago. We've changed. We've grown. We've matured and we've experienced new stages in life.

Much like ourselves, Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, and Shoshanna have changed. The girls they were season one, are not the women they are today, nor they will be in season seven. They've hit peaks and they've fallen to lows.

Everyone has experienced the evolution of either themselves or a loved one. It may have been for the best or the worst, but human ability to change over time is inevitable and real to everyone's life one way or another. Marnie's first love interest Charlie, is a pivotal example of how even someone you think you know so well can change into someone you never thought so.

The development of Charlie from his first scene to his last was an emotional one for all viewers, not because they necessarily knew of a person like that of Charlie, but because the idea that people hold the ability within themselves to change so drastically is scary, unsettling and powerful.

Change can be hard to accept and notice while happening no matter how trivial or severe, especially at an age that seems to determine the course for the rest of our lives. The people we were in high school are not the same people we are today, an idea many of us are afraid to embrace. We don't want to let go of memories and times of a younger more innocent age.

It may sound extreme because college is only a short four years within a lifetime, but this is the time for the most development, maturity and yes, change in our lives. Change in our friendships, relationships and ideas. This is not the time to shy away and ignore it, but rather for accepting the changes in the course guiding us to our futures.

Just remember, eventually everything changes. If you ever need reassurance that today might not be what you pictured yesterday, just look to Hannah, Marnie, Jessa, or Shoshanna. And learn to embrace the saying, "everything happens for a reason" because it is the only way to truly come to peace with change.