Throughout my early childhood and teenage years leading up to my life now, the media has been a prominent source of escape and imagination for me.  As a young child, my imagination ran wild and practically entertained itself between playing make believe and dress up all day long.  I was constantly drawn towards Walt Disney movies, most likely because they were filled with princesses living in fantasy worlds.  I guess I could easily identify with movies such as, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, since most of my thoughts were filled with imaginative adventures and fairy tale atmospheres.  The Walt Disney princesses became in a sense, role models for me as a little girl.  Every princess was strong willed, courageous, kind, compassionate and fought for what they believed to be true and right.  The adventures and stories told throughout their fairy tale lives grasped my full attention and fed my imagination with even more entertaining ideas.  As I grew older into my preteen years, I found myself always yearning to grow up and become a “cool” teenager.  I was so concerned with trying to act older, look older and just finally BE older, that I constantly was attracted to television shows such as, Seventh Heaven.  It was quite natural for me to enjoy these type of shows, since at least two or three of the characters in the show were experiencing the same frustrations of youth that I was facing in my life at the time.  The Camden sisters were always looking for a way to be able to have the same privileges as the other sisters in the family.  They constantly desired to be all grown up, just as I did at that point in my life.  Now that I have grown throughout my teenage years, I find myself more interested in shows that relate to my life and the people that I am surrounded by everyday.  I love watching television shows such as Friends and That 70s Show.  The humor that embodies these shows reminds me of my close friends and family members, who are such a large impact on my life. Throughout all of the phases I experienced in my lifetime, I have always found myself attracted to the media that was made up of characters who I could easily identify with as a person.  No matter what stage of my life that I was going through, I always found comfort in relating to these specific shows and characters, which continuously expands my thoughts and imagination.