As I prepare for the Academy Awards, I went out on a whim and saw Lady Bird and let me tell you, I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Christiana (i.e Lady Bird) is struggling through her senior year in Sacramento, California also while juggling the struggles of boys, her mom, and getting into any college away from home.

I know you're probably thinking "wow this is already cliche" and maybe it is, but the way Sacramento native Greta Gerwig tells the story is anything but cliche.

So many times we see these coming of age stories and sometimes they face the same battles and they all end the same. Lady Bird is told in such a delicate and fragile way, that I left the movie sobbing for my own childhood.

Lady Bird doubts herself, she doubts her mothers love, her friends, and school. Anything and everything all teenagers have doubted but the way you see it on screen is so raw and real you feel like they are telling your own story and fighting your own battles.

Lady Bird is scared, excited, and (SPOILER ALERT!) homesick. We see her dread every day in her small town but the minute she leaves and heads to New York City. She realizes that home isn't all that bad and she misses the bends of the road, her mom, her friends and her childhood.

Something all people my age hate to admit is that they miss home or that they aren't as independent as they seem.

Lady Bird taught me that it's okay to miss home, your family, and to need help every once in awhile. No one was made to live life alone and the people around you are there to help you learn and grow. Sure, it takes her moving across the country to realize that where she grew up will always be apart of her and also adulthood sucks.

And yeah a lot of things might've changed but her parents' love (especially her mom) never did. Growing up can be hard but no one said it would be easy.

To Lady Bird, the movie that made me cry about growing up and made me call my mom asap just to say "I love you."