Nicole
Somma
Jersey
Shore
Outside
topics 2
I
was born and raised in Cranford, New Jersey located about 2 hours from the
famous “Seaside Heights”. My childhood consisted of yearly beach trips to the
Jersey shore. When I was a child I would walk up and down the shore collecting
shells, playing with jelly fish and swimming for hours. My mom use to call me a fish because no
matter the temperature of the water I would make it my mission to swim. Growing
up I remember watching the sunset on the Bay every night and hoping one day I
could live on the beach. The Jersey shore was the most beautiful thing to me. It
was the first place I went when I got my license and became the common
destination in my teenage years as well. This all changed for me when the
reality television shows Jersey Show came out. I was furious how disrespectful
the cast was towards the place I spent my child hood. As the show became more popular, so did the
shore. I have not visited Seaside Height since the show was recorded. I hated
the place that Seaside represented to America. It made me wonder how I could no
longer find the beauty in the sunset or the love for the atmosphere. Was the
beauty still there and I could not see it? Did the shore actually change or was
it me? Did I find beauty in something
else? Personally, I thought the Jersey Shore would always be there for me to
eventually go back too. I hoped that the people corrupting the place would
eventually lose interest and it would once again become the place of my childhood. Well the shore changed once again and the
beauty and nature that I once knew is now lost forever. Hurricane Sandy
completely erased Seaside Heights off the map and the beauty I knew was gone.
It made me regret all those years I did not go because of a television show. I
realized that the beauty was still there it was just underneath all the
tourists and groupies. Now I know to appreciate things before nature takes them
away.
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