gLee And Me

How close are you to being yourself in this world where everyone is alike?

9 Jul, 20234 min read

Glee is a musical, youth, drama, and comedy series that started broadcasting on Fox in 2009 and ended in 2015 with 6 seasons. The creators of the series, starring Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, and Amber Riley, are shared by Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy, and Ian Brennan. This series, which won many awards and touched the lives of many people with its fan comments, is my favorite series in this world.

When I first started watching Glee, unfortunately, the series was goodbye to the screens. I started watching the series when I was 14 years old when I was just graduating from secondary school. When my sister started the series, I realized that it was time for me to watch this series, too. I even remember the day and time I started watching the show. I started watching the series at midnight on Thursday, exactly one week before the summer vacation. The next day, because I have school, my mother tells me to go to bed early and gets angry at me for not sleeping early. I, on the other hand, started to watch the series under the quilt with low screen brightness the moment she slept.

While I couldn't understand how the time passed, the episodes chased each other at once and it was morning before I slept. I didn't want to leave the screen and go to school because the fictional life of this show had drawn me in so much that they felt even closer than my friends. Apart from that, they were teenagers who loved music and were very different from each other. I was exactly like that, and I thought that watching this show was all I need to feel better. I was the weird, nerdy student who was always there to cheer for others and didn't have the guts to go on stage and sing, which I don't mean as a bad thing. At that time, I started to hate myself because I had to be like them to be accepted by my peers, but I was not like them. It was difficult to adapt when everything I loved and defended was the opposite of theirs. When I was ashamed of my appearance among my perfect-looking peers, I couldn't understand that something was wrong. Because if you are different, the problem is that you think likewise, but the fact that everyone is the same does not mean that it is correct. The show suddenly became my comfort zone, I remember not feeling so helpless while singing along with that character. The show gave me such strength that I think it affected the person I am now. While I was talking about this series, which I finished the first season in one day, I did not know that this series, which I will watch hundreds of times in the future, would have different meanings in every phase of my life.

Because I watched Glee as a kid. Being a teenage girl in middle school back then made me think that everything could be about you. However, this series was more than that. Rather than voicing many personal issues, it was also voicing social issues. The series with cleverly constructed dialogues presented a life flow with the personal development of the characters. In this stream of life, when the characters now graduated from high school, I felt like my blood was frozen. Because high school was the time, I didn't want it to end. Because although I like to be on my own, facing the reality of this would not be as easy or as difficult as in my head. Even though some people who love gLee don't like it after the third season, I think I loved the show with every season. Watching the mistakes of youth that are repeated even when you are an adult, the times you spend with your old friends are the beautiful and blurry mistakes of the past, moving on with life despite everything and you have the people who support you, this series made me feel like a close friend with everything.

I love gLee because the show shows how precious the courage to be yourself is, the courage to be yourself even if you are someone to be judged by social norms. Rather than judging your physical values by social standards, it taught me what makes you different is actually what's most valuable. It taught me that you don't have to be successful, beautiful, smart, and such to be valuable. I love gLee because I'm in love with the magic of music and the stories of youth.