I know that nobody cares about what I think (Neither do I tbh), but I’m going to start venting on this platform occasionally because I feel like it, even though nobody is gonna read this. Hope y’all don’t mind. I don’t know why I just wrote that. I’ve never said y’all in my life. I recently moved to the South (kinda) so everyone here always says y’all and I want to fit in and say it too, but I feel like it would just be awkward as hell coming out of my mouth. Anyways, so I was supposed to be working on an assignment tonight for class that’s due tomorrow, but I procrastinated for 4 weeks. Nothing new there. I always procrastinate. Always. I have quite a few bad habits, but procrastinating is definitely my worst. However, I’m not trying to brag, but I’m pretty sure I do my best work when I’m under pressure. Back to to the story though. Is it even a story? I don’t think so. I’m just rambling. But whatever. So, I was supposed to be working on an assignment that I should have started ages ago, but I really didn’t want to do it, so I put The Office on. I’ve been a fan of The Office for ages. However, I’ve only seen like 3 or 4 episodes from the seasons after Michael left. I just struggled so badly to get through it. I felt like a piece of me was gone. Michael was my friend. He made me laugh whenever I was sad or lonely (or procrastinating). I know that Michael wasn’t the best role model, but I did relate to him quite a bit. He just wanted to feel like he belonged. He was an outsider. However, throughout the series you can see that even though he wasn’t Mr. Popular, he was certainly loved. Although his coworkers didn’t always show it, they cared for him. I think the moment in the show that this notion really sets in is during the episode that Michael finally leaves and Pam runs after him and they just hug. A lot of the time the characters didn’t always treat Michael the best. He was always the butt of the joke. They never were laughing with him. Always at him. They would do anything to get out of having dinner with him (*cough* Pam and Jim *cough*). Nobody really showed that they cared if they ever saw him again, until that episode he left. People always say you never know what you had until it’s gone, and this episode really demonstrates that idea perfectly. I think Pam regretted how she treated Michael sometimes and that moment she hugged him she realized that she was going to miss him, but he deserved to be happy so she was going to let him go. I think they all realized that day how much they cared for Michael. They weren’t best friends that hung out all the time on the weekends, but they were a family. A dysfunctional, crazy, loving family. So, even though Michael seemed to not fit in, he did, because family sticks together. It doesn’t matter if you’re different. Your family loves you for who you are. And this is what leads me to tonight. As I mentioned before, after that devastating, emotional rollercoaster of an episode, I kind of stopped watching The Office. It was too painful. Until this evening when for some crazy reason I decided that putting on the very last episode of the series would be a great idea. It was a little bit under an hour long, so that was exciting. What was even more exciting was the fact that Michael came back. I mean, I kind of figured that would happen. However, I was devastated with the lack of footage containing him. He was in it maybe 5 minutes. That’s it. This was the ending of one of the greatest shows of time, and Michael was a major part of the series. When they were reminicing about their times at the office, Michael was barely in any flashbacks and it angers me. It angers me because Michael was a critical part of everyone’s lives. He helped shape them into who they are today, and I just don’t understand why he wasn’t given the credit he deserves. He kind of was just pushed to the side this episode. The last time you see him is about halfway through the episode at Dwight’s wedding. He’s laughing and smiling. He’s finally happy. He deserves to be happy. I suppose this could be a reason as to why they left things the way they were because he already had his closure. He had his happy ending. There’s no point in saying goodbye twice. I guess they didn’t want to make the episode about him, especially since he hadn’t been in the past two seasons at all. It still hurts though. It still hurt seeing everyone together in the last few scenes of the episode sitting in the office, just like old times. Except Michael wasn’t there. He wasn’t with his work family that he watched grow up. He was living his life with his new family. Taking all this in honestly made me sob like a baby and I don’t think I’m going to get over the ending of this brilliant series for a very long time. Thank you for letting me ramble. Maybe I’ll do it again sometime in the future.