OTH x TLA

TLA x OneTreeHill

true love always.

this show is everything. this show is my escape. the one thing that i could watch over and over to drown out my own life. the show that taught me real life lessons, some i needed right at that specific time and some i did not know i needed at the time but have helped since. this show truly opened my eyes to true love.

love never came easy to me. at all. i rarely felt loved as a child, and especially not as a teenager. my relationships i was in when i was younger seemed so fake to me now. what was love at that age? i’m not sure i’ll ever know because i always felt like i was forcing love. i felt that way because i so desperately wanted to feel the love i missed out on as a child. which i now understand is the wrong type of love. i’m not being dramatic when i say One Tree Hill changed my life, and many of my peers as well (we all had this insane obsession in high school but for valid reasons, obv). watching so many couples fall in before your eyes on a tv show can be intimidating for some but for me it was eye opening. it made me realize i need to let go of some things in my past and believe in true love always, or TLA.

i took away from the show that when its real, you won’t feel like its forced, you won’t feel like its out of pity. instead, things may try to come between you and that love but when its real..that love will always be there at the end of each and every day. i finally understood that people (besides myself) go through crazy, weird, sad, annoying and hurtful life twists. and that it is okay!! i understood that these life events should not exempt you from being loved, or feeling love. ever. it became clear to me that no matter what you go through in your life; love is possible, love is real and love is safe.

this is why i got this tattoo. for me, it symbolizes that i first and foremost love MYSELF truly and always. but also that i’m capable of being loved by others. it’s a daily reminder that its okay to let my guard down to feel love. last year has been my biggest leap in self love yet, and i wanted this tattoo to symbolize the growth i had in 2018!

i still recommend OTH to anyone, at any stage in life! WATCH IT! do you have a show, song, or something that helped you throughout your life? or if you do watch OTH; what are some of your favorite episodes?