Hollywood Recycles

Have you ever noticed that the same people are in every movie? No matter what genre or era it was made in, the personalities are always the same across the board.  There's usually a troubled person (either boy or girl) and another who tries to change them.  Then often times you have an eccentric or funny friend that releases the tension, and always somebody completing against the protagonist.  It's the same thing every time.  You have the generic bad boy or the sweet, caring girl, or the awkward, nerd boy, and the not so sweet slut.  People in movies always have to same personalities.
It's when you begin to group the people in your life into these "movie star" personalities that you're really missing out on life.  Walking down the street I see all kinds of people--old, young, tall, short, quirky, shy, thug, nerd....
But as much as my mind wants to, I can't generalize these people like that. They don't fit into any of Hollywood's classic characters.  Some of them my remind me of a character, but they're not that person.  Each person is unique, and it's just a result of lack of creativity that every movie character has the same personality.
Life is too big and too extraordinary to reuse personalities! While I am all for recycling plastic, paper, and the like, I can't say I want to recycle a character. I am who God made me--100% unique.  That's who I am, and no matter how many times Hollywood tries to tell me only this type of girl gets the happily ever after.....I have to say:
I am who I am
Inside and out
I live my life
Without a doubt
Never knowing the ending
But enjoying the route.