Ending Glee

Last episodes. Some great. Some awful. Some shows never get them at all.
When I think of the last episode of Glee, it's almost the end of a period of my life. Seeing the first episode replay made me think back to my last years of middle school, years of high school and how I had felt. The forgotten things I remembered. The things I thought were important.
It wasn't that Glee made up my life.  I didn't breath Glee or anything like that. Each week was another episode into the quirky McKinley High School.  I wasn't a super fan who wore the shirts or bought every single Glee thing on earth.  It was one of the many hums during that time period that I had to figure out who I was and what I wanted to be. I connected with the characters with huge dreams. Those who were shy, or who wore masks, trying to figure out who they were. Glee was a connector to those my age, a sign that the arts were cool and nerdy people too. The characters grew each season of the show, and others were added. They were the same age as me and I felt like some of their struggles mirrored mine.
When the main cast graduated and new ones were added, Glee kind of lost its special-ness to me. The characters I'd grown to love weren't the main cast anymore. I stopped watching it the last couple of seasons, but came back for the finale. Why not? The ending summed up all of the parts, including the flash forwards and meaningful quotes.
"You taught me things about myself that I would have never discovered on my own." - Sue 
"Being a part of something special does not make you special. Something is special because you are a part of it." –Rachel