Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

            This week in class we had a guest speaker come in named Nick Toti, a former Truman student who is now pursuing his dreams in film making. I loved hearing all about his life and how he got to where he is today. I am not going to be going into a field even close to what Nick is doing, but pretty much all of his advice was very applicable to life no matter what you are doing, which I thought was awesome and took a lot from. I really enjoyed his philosophies on life and how he has gone about going for what he wants to do. The fact that he is really in it for the joy of doing what he loves and not for money is very inspiring to me, and probably the biggest take away I got from his visit.

            To tie this into a Netflix series, lately I’ve been watching the show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and there is a lot of correlation between Kimmy’s life and Nick’s life. The show follows the story of a thirty year old woman named Kimmy Schmidt who was in a bunker for several years with a reverend who told her and three other girls the apocalypse was happening. This sounds like it would be a super depressing tale, but it’s actually a comedy. A lot of the comedic elements of the show have to do with the fact that everything Kimmy knows about the world is from the 90’s, and she is learning a ton about the modern world when she decides to move to New York after getting out of the bunker. This reminds me of Nick’s story when he talked about filling in the holes in his damn education, because in this show Kimmy is doing the same, just with her life. At one point, she decides to go back to school to get her GED because all she has is a middle school education. She’s also getting to experience things like dating, having a job, and having adult responsibilities for the first time, all in very comical fashion. People tend to have strange impressions of Kimmy because a lot of things she says and does are very childlike.

            I would definitely recommend this show to pretty much anyone, not only because it is hilarious, but I do think there is a lot that can be learned from this show. It is one of my biggest beliefs that it is never too late to turn your life around for the positive and that you have to take your happiness into your own hands. Kimmy Schmidt is a perfect example of this. Obviously if these same events actually perspired in real life the outcome would most likely be very different. Regardless, the way Kimmy handled the situation was pretty amazing and inspiring if you ask me. The other people that were in the bunker just continued on with the way their life was before they went in, as if nothing had changed. Kimmy however, didn’t want to let those few years define her entire life and immediately began a new chapter. This show is a huge exaggeration, but the biggest take away is that bad things happen to everyone in our lives, but you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and make the best of it. I think we can all learn something from Kimmy Schmidt.