I am home with the Flu, 101 degree fever, aches, pains, you know the usual.
I have been watching GL on the wweb for the last few months, mainly because of my schedules. Today I was watching GL at 10:00 am. and today, my eyes were watery not only because of the flu, not because of Alan's Funeral. I actually cried when Fletcher walked through the door and Alexandra broke down. It wasn't that it was Alexandra it was Marj Dusay. It felt like she released all of her pent up emotions of GL leaving the air tomorrow. That’s what did it for me.
All my memories came running back into my mind about GL, not the storylines or actors but why I loved the show, the memories of sitting with my mother, after school, watching the show with her. When my younger Brother Tommy died, when I was 16, in a freak accident and I sat in my parent's bedroom crying and GL was on and I was watching it.
When my children were born and I named them after my two favorite characters Amanda and Philip.
When 9-11, the day that changed our country and my life, all the so many friends I lost, where the only place {due to lose or sporadic phone/internet connection) I was able to reach out to was our old Sunny Message board. Where you all responded to me and comforted me.
Guiding Light brought us together, we all watched, complained, laughed, cried, we ran the gamut of all emotions and memories and now it's leaving us. I thought about this board and wondered what is going to happen to it and to us. It hit me right when Fletcher walked through that door.
This board shares more than a soap opera. We all share a friendship and we need to continue that. So let us keep posting about: road kill recipes, head smacking, kids, pets, schools, careers, love and everything else. Why?
Because we are all living in our own Soap Opera and we sure as heck do not want to be cancelled
THE LIGHT IS ALWAYS GOING TO SHINE AS LONG AS WE LOVE.
I am only as far caught up on GL as Tuesday's episode, and GL hasn't made me cry yet, but your post certainly did!
I agree that we all share a bond that is so special and it cannot be broken by greedy network execs or low ratings. We may not have Guiding Light anymore after tomorrow, but we will always have each other, and that is an immeasurable gift that this show has given to each one of us.
Tony, your post made me cry as well. Springfield has always felt like a sort of hometown to me because my family has moved around so much. When I relocated from Boston to NYC, GL was there and I shared it with people at work. When I was pregnant and home with young children, GL was my "coffee break" and with any luck I could sit for a few minutes and enjoy the presence of other adults. When we moved back to Boston and installed a modem in 1997, I connected with all of you and met some of the most lovely, funny, loving people I've ever known.
Ruff, don't take down the GL board just yet. I may want to go back and reminisce a bit.
Ruff, you wouldn't take the board down, would you? Even without GL, it's a refuge and place for sharing. We're a small group, but that works for us. We've all shared so much over the years and it was GL that brought us together.
For me, GL was my introduction to the internet. My son showed me how to connect, (remember the sound and the blue line as the dial up connected?) and knowing I enjoyed GL, showed me how the message boards worked. I lurked for days before posting something about Jesse Blue for which I was slammed by his groupies. I don't think I posted again for ages until I found Diane's board, and many of the posters here. Many pixels later, here we all are.
I'm off on a cruise tomorrow afternoon but plan to get up early to watch the Eastern feed so I can raise a glass of orange juice, but hey, it'll be 7am! here, with all of you and toast GL and our wonderful group.
Maybe we can all keep posting our favorite memories of GL and why we liked it and bring back all those memories again. HEy we've all been watching for a long long time, and its so nice to read about why the show was important to everyone.
I always watched, I can't remember not watching, I know at 3 o'clock my mom & i would go to my grandmas to watch, no laundry, no cooking, no cleaning we just watched. My BFF and I would run home from school at 3 and watch GL every day, In grade school, my biggest memory was of Roger falling off the cliff... right around the time we were in high school, the 4 muskateers, couldn't wait to see them. And we both FELL IN LOVE WITH LUJACK! WOO HOO. Phillip has been one of my all time favorites. I scheduled classes in college around GL, there weren't too many of us that liked GL most were Days fans, but I did find one small group and we watched every day.
One of the funniest memories of my daughter Mara when she was little she was watching with me and Marah Lewis was on, and it was like a light bulb went off in her head...she looked at me and said IS THAT WHERE YOU GOT MY NAME!!!! Truth is, I did, just changed the spelling a little! And when I was in the hospital giving birth to AJ, his name is Alan John (my husband is Alan too, but we can pretend it was after Alan Spaulding...same spelling) I had him at 3:35 and GL was on in my hospital room. I remember Eleni & Alan-Michael being on can't remember the story line, but I remember seeing their heads in the backround on the TV> THe next night the daytime emmys were on and Buzz Cooper won over Roger THorpe!
I too, lost it when Fletcher walked in....Marj Dusay let it all out...and so did I. Today was very hard for me. I actually kept pausing it and leaving the room, because I didn't want the end of the show to come. I am debating for tomorrow, I think I have to take the mornign off and watch it live time, I dont think I can wait until after work to watch it. Then again, i want to postpone it as long as I can.
Meggie, when I connected to the internet the first search I did was Guiding Light and found Diane's board. I was always a "spoiler" freak, anywhere I could find out what was going to happen next, so taht was the first thing I typed in. GUIDING LIGHT
