True Life...I Am My Sibling's "Mother"

Have you ever thought of what it would have been like if your mother had passes away and you were the oldest and had to help take care of your siblings? In this particular episode of True Life conveyed is the story of 2 young teenagers who have to help take of their siblings. Sarah a 20 year old had to drop out of college after her mother committed suicide to help her father take care of their family. Sarah has 2 younger siblings and a son of her own. Her son is 3, his name is Josh, then she has 2 younger sisters, one is 15 and 4 months pregnant, and the other 17. In order to help her father afford the kids Sarah works 2 part-time jobs and occasionally dances for extra cash when she is in a desperate state. Also, there was a story of another girl who attends night college and hold a full time job as a secretary during the day for a dentist office, Both of her parents are mentally handicapped due to an accident they were in. She has 3 younger siblings, 2 girls and a boy then her parents are now like children too. They are on the brink of poverty.

To have to take control and provide for others at such a young age would be devastating to me. I would never be able to relate to these people.

I want to be made...into an intellectual

In addition to watching Truelife on MTV i also enjoy watching the series called Made. Recently i watched an episode entitled "I want to be made into an intellectual". This episode was about a young girl named Aja. she was a junior in High School, very popular among her classmates and a cheerleader. She would get very upset because people would make fun of her for being a "ditz". However, she had many friends and most people liked her she wanted to gain respect from others and prove that she can be smart. She decided to join the speech and debate team at her high school. However, she did not do very well on the team she did gain the respect of the other students for trying. I can relate to Aja in the sense that I went from a city school to a suburban school and when i'm not trying to speak properly I have been told that I speak "staright pittsburgese". I have been told that the way I talk is ignorant and wrong and I do get made fun of for the way I talk sometimes, but I have learned to accept it and I do not care what others think of me or the way I speak anymore.

True Life...I Live In The Projects

I recently watched an episode of True Life entitled "I Live In The Projects". This episode conveyed the life of young people living in the projects. Personally, I can not really relate to these people. I did grow in a bad neighborhood in Pittsburgh, but there were far worse areas than where i was. However, the people living in the projects had to deal with daily shootings, fights, and gangs. Police are seen as the enemy and being arrested and in jail was no big deal to them. I could never live a life like this. A man named Dennis on the show was arrested while just walking down the street. It did not phase him what so ever. I would never be able to live life in the projects.

True Life...I'm Larger Than Life

Yesterday, February 6th, i was watching an episode of true life that depicts the life of people who are faced with obesity. There was one woman on the episode that really caught my attention. She was over 600 pounds. The extreme number of health and medical issues she was facing was countless. It looked as if her days were numbered. She then made a life changing decision to get gastric bypass surgery. From this surgery she has lost just about 400 pounds. She now has excess skin due to the enormous weight loss that is beyond fixable by plastic surgery. However, this does not bother her. She feels great and is happier now more than she has ever been. Before she got this surgery she had a fear of going out in public and especially of sitting in restaurant chairs. She always felt the chairs would break under her weight since it has happened before. Also the comments people would make to and about her. Whispering and pointing at her was all a big part of her decision as well as health issues to get the surgery.

I personally can not totally relate to this woman, because i am not facing obesity, but i have learned through this episode that i should watch what I say as well as others. The littlest thing can really hurt someones feelings to the point where they decide to go under the knife. In this situation it was a good thing, but for others it could be plastic surgery.

True Life...I Have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Recently i found myself watching True Life...I have OCD, although i don't have OCD and i can not really relate to the people on this episode it really got me to thinking how bad it would stink to have a disorder such as OCD. To have to touch items in a certain way, it something is unorganized one much immediately organize it. If you step over something wrong you have to go back and re-step over it till it "feels right". If I had to go through life like that it would be torture to me. To have to perform a "ritual" before you can leave your home or perform a task. The one young girl on the show, Morgan, she had to perform a "ritual" because she believed that if she did not do so her mother would die. Another girl, Erika, she believed that if her mother did not pick out her found or pour her drinks then it did not "feel right" and she could not eat or drink the food. This is a torturous life to have to live and I am grateful that I do not have OCD.

True Life...I'm a Twin

Recently on True Life an episode entitled I'm a Twin aired. The producers of the show had a set of identical twins named Jessica and Danielle, and a set of ferternal twins named Dena and Vanessa. The show basically showed how one twin was always living in the shadow of the other. For example Jessica was living in the shadow of Danielle. Jessica was knows as the "mean" twin because she spitted her sister so much. Danielle was the bubbly nice twin that everybody loved. Vanessa was the "prettier" twin between Dena and herself. Dena was always feeling depressed.

I feel as if i can relate to this episode extremely well, I myself being a triplet. We grew up in pittsburgh then our older sister, Brittany passed away and my parents wanted to get out of the city. My brother went into an extreme depression because Brittany was his twin. JC & Brittany never really had to deal with all the pressures of being a twin because they were of opposite sexes. As for Danielle, Jacque, and myself, we had so many pressures off of one another. We are ferternal, which means we al look different. Danielle was known as the "sporty/popular" triplet. Jacque was known as the "tubby" triplet, and I was known as the "mute". Other kids would always ask us why we weren't alike or why one was real good at sports and the rest of us stunk at sports, or why one was so smart and the other not so much.

Being one of a multiple birth is hard. Most people who aren't of one think it's "cool" and they wish they were a twin or triplet. But, they don't understand what all children of multiple births have to go through. It's a tough life, reguardless of what you think.

True Life...I never knew my father

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you never knew your father? Maybe you do know your father and you wish you didn't, or maybe he passed away when you were young, or maybe you just wish you could have had the loving relationship between father and child that you see in all the movies.

I often times find myself watching MTV and a variety of shows on the channel. True Life is one of the shows i enjoy watching most. After watching an episode of True Life entitled "I never knew my father" it really touched me. Although I do know my father I feel as if I can relate to the people on this episode of true life. The one boy, named Craig, his father left his family when he was 5 years old. His mother told him that his father was a bad and abusive man. She also wished that he would refrain from meeting him. Craig disagrees, he wants to know his father, he says he still loves him. In other cases, such as mine, I wish that I would have had a more caring and loving father. Me and my father are on first name basis. I don't call him Dad and i never will. He was never a "dad" to me and never will be. We have a very cold relationship.

Father's should realize the trauma that they can cause a child by simply not being there while the child grows up and by not loving the child the way they need to be loved. Some people may be strong enough to move on without ever thinking anything of it, while others struggle to move past it. So many different issues can arrive. A child misses out on so many of life's lessons without a father figure.