Lying in bed this morning, still half asleep, I found myself thinking back on a certain beloved TV show. It was one of those situation comedies that centers around little people and their lives, but in particular I was thinking about the sad-sack main character, who comes into work every day to verbally spar with his feisty secretary, never realizing that she is secretly in love with him.<\/p>\n
Of course the audience knows the truth, and that’s what makes the show work. I was thinking about how eventually the actress who played the secretary left the show — one of those inevitable casting changes — and the opportunity was lost for these two people to find happiness together. Even though it was just a silly sitcom, the kind of show where you weren’t supposed to take anything too seriously, it still seemed sad to me, that missed connection.<\/p>\n
I could see their faces so vividly in my mind, and little details like her dark pixie-cut hair, his badly fitting suit. Lying half awake, trying to remember the name of the show, and where else I had seen that actor and actress, I gradually realized that none of it was real.<\/p>\n
There had never been such a show. My half-dreaming mind had made up the entire wistful reality in those brief moments between dream and wakefulness.<\/p>\n
Before getting out of bed, I took a moment to mourn this show I would never see, this make-believe missed opportunity for happiness, and those two sad, funny and oddly appealing people who would never meet their true love, even in reruns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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