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What "How I Met Your Mother" Means To Me

An iconic show with a lasting impression

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What "How I Met Your Mother" Means To Me
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When I was in high school, I was introduced to "How I Met Your Mother" (HIMYM) for the first time. Over the next couple of months, it became one of my absolute favorite TV shows. Now, I have watched the show four times and I'm working on my fifth way through. Every time I finish it, I take a couple weeks, and then start it all over again. It's absolutely my favorite TV show of all time and it I don't think I will ever get tired of watching it.

HIMYM is a way for me to bond with the people in my life, and honestly is a big connection to the people I consider closest to me. My best friend and I bonded over our deep love for the TV show before we ever were friends. It was honestly one of the reasons we even stayed friends. My current boyfriend and I bonded over our mutual love for the show when we first met, and still do until this very day.

When I joined a sorority, I was really worried about finding a great Big. The day I met my Big I knew that I wanted her to be mine because of how much she liked HIMYM and that she had seen the entire show. All these people in my life are amazing, but one of the reasons I thought they were so awesome was because of their love for HIMYM.

I watch HIMYM when I'm sad. When I have a bad day I come home and watch HIMYM and it makes me happy again. When I have a good day I watch HIMYM because it makes me laugh and makes my day even better. When I hang out with people I care about we watch HIMYM because they either love HIMYM too, or I love them enough to share HIMYM with them. One of my really good friends from high school goes to the same college as me. My freshman year I was able to convince her to watch the entire show and she thoroughly enjoyed it.

My favorite part about finding fellow HIMYM fans is when you can bond over iconic scenes in the series. Everyone who's a true fan knows the hilarity of slapsgiving, the heartbreaking emotion when Robin does her one episode of "How I Met Your Father," and how you honestly want to strangle Lily just a little bit when she goes to San Francisco and leaves Marshall. I don't think anything can replace all the little details I know about the show and the crazy lines that are forever burned in my brain. "Not good enough!" is something I just can't help but say. And there are so many little jokes like that that I can't help but smile about when I think of it.

I don't think watching one show over and over is a bad thing. I honestly can't picture my life without HIMYM because of all the wonderful things it taught me. Also, because of all the times it has been a constant source of laughter in the rocky and difficult times. I know I will never stop watching "How I Met Your Mother."


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