Well, it was daytime emmy time again, and I must say that there are few evenings better spent than this. 

You see, each year, one evening exists where the spotlight rests on the medium I love in a way which is out of the ordinary.  For all other nights of the year spotlight is bad, unwanted, and undeserved.  So often when someone speaks about soaps, they speak of it with disrespect, and that's speaking politely.

And the thing is, we, my "family" and I, we know this.  We know that we exist in the real world of medium, television, and entertainment altogether only as the redheaded step-child.  We say it doesn't bother us, but that's not true everday.  Somedays its hard that other people don't see the value, that they won't even try to listen to the beauty.

And so for one night each year we come together to celebrate the love affair we have with a medium called soap opera.  The term soap opera comes from the days of the radio serial.  Radio serial were started as a way to fill the dead air time between commercials.  The majority of people listening to serials during that time were women working in the home, and so the biggest advertisers were the soap companies.  Apparently, women working in the home during that time were also conesuers of soap.

And tonight I sit here in my favorite of all places: atop my soap opera soap box.

I won't bore you with the long version.  You wouldn't read it if I did.  I can't get my parents or my boyfriend or my Tyler to listen to the long version, so here's a recap.  Soap operas are good for our society.  They make us feel better about our screwed up lives.  They address serious and important social issues, providing the general public with specific knowledge they aren't likely to get in their day to day lives.  They allow us to unload our emotions in a way that's safe, letting us cry and experience loss without having to lose.  And our soaps, they are daily.  Almost as regular as the sun itself, they are there regardless of our trespasses.  They see us through hardship and remain by our sides during times of joy.  They provide constant companionship that most people do not ever have otherwise.

You should try it.  I promise you'll enjoy yourself.  Pick any one of them, as I love them all equally and applaud the work they do.  Someday I hope I'll get to fight this good fight, and win big.

Some nights I'm quieter and more reserved about boasting this feeling of righteousness, but not tonight.  Tonight was an evening spent among family, and in this particular family there is no room to be soft spoken.