How I Met Your Mother is notoriously known for being a sitcom, but after recently finishing all nine seasons, I have come to notice the deeper meaning behind the show. Every once in awhile a nice life quote would pop up that would make you question how you are living life. Lily Aldrin in specific had some of the most thought provoking words that made me even stop to think about myself.
“You can’t just skip around to where you think your life should be.”
Life lesson number one, it’s simple and we as humans always think we can skip things in life and it will still run smoothly. Well please tell me the last time someone skipped sixth to freshman year in high school and could understand what they were learning. Skipping around is just going to make it worse because you are allowing yourself to jump around instead of following the steps.
“Look, you can’t design your life like a building it doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it…and it’ll design itself.”
Number two! Our life isn’t a blueprint, as we may like to think so. Sometimes we don’t like the way things are going in life so we choose to go a different route, but what I have to say is God has a plan for all of us and it might include going the treacherous long way instead of the shortcut but it will eventually work out. So what I’m trying to say is just live life and appreciate it instead of trying to plan every last detail because that’s when we just get sucked into life and we forget how blessed and important it is.
“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are going to disappear eventually.”
Numero tres coming your way. This directly relates to holding onto the past. What good is it going to do for us in the present or future if we are stuck holding onto something that may paralyze us from succeeding? The reason we tend to keep these things is because we don’t have a physical item to always have with us to remember so then that fear of forgetting it comes to mind. But what we have to learn in life is that as life moves on, we move on and that may be the toughest ideal we have to face as human beings.
“In marriage, being right is less important than supportive.”
The last life lesson is something I have personally not experienced but just from watching How I Met Your Mother and seeing other marriages, support is probably one of the most important things to have in a marriage. Without support, your significant other would not have someone by their side to give encouragement and emotional help during a struggling time. So my thought for you is find someone who is going to support you in every little decision you make, and if you are already with someone reflect if they are holding up to those expectations.
Who would have ever thought an American sitcom would be teaching us life lessons, but then again doesn’t every show or movie?