by Kaye Boss

Created on: April 20, 2009

I must share with you an embarrassing moment that I had just last summer in regards to watching General Hospital, the only soap opera that I watch. I was watching and something sad had happened, at this point in time I can't remember because so much as happened since then but I was bawling my eyes dry while sewing up my boyfriends pants. In the midst of my sobbing and stitching, I came to my senses with just enough energy to say: "I feel like my grandmother." And then the sobbing continued, probably harder now.

Now, to be serious, General Hospital is an amazing show and it is a show that has been on forever. My grandmother watches it everyday and has watched it since my mother was born some forty years ago. It's something connecting the generations in my family, but why is it so intriguing to us? It's a show about mobsters and a hospital. The mobster part sounds like it would appeal to men, and the hospital parts sounds like we're only watching for men- ie. Doctors like Patrick!

General Hospital incorporates the things that we want to see on day time television. It has love and loss, strength and weakness, unforgettable characters that we just grow so attached to and a drama that just never lets up.

Being that I have only just turned nineteen, I know very little about General Hospital other than that I am absolutely addicted to the show. Recently, the love that is being carried out with Maxie and Spinelli just keeps pulling me back in for more. They are pure opposites of one another and yet they just co-exist perfectly. Two peas in a cyber/fashion pod. I am so addicted to wanting them to be together.

My obsession with the show came to an all-time high yesterday when I was wishing that I could have a role in the soap. I wanted to be a mob princess and join forces with Jason and Sonny fighting the troubles of Port Charles, New York.

Although, chances are, I will never receive a phone call or an e-mail from the people working for General Hospital offering me a role amidst their amazing cast, I will continue watching the show as it reaches it's 50th anniversary, and so on and so forth. I will introduce General Hospital to my children and they will introduce it to theirs until 200 years from now men and women will still be speaking of the true love of Luke and Laura Spencer (or maybe one day Maxie and Spinelli, I'll keep my fingers crossed!).

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