Lovely obsessions...
Many people know I have a Facebook page, and know the websites I post to. But almost no one of close acquaintance, maybe no one at all, knows I have an LJ page, and certainly not under this name.
It's kind of freeing, isn't it? On FB, I have all sorts of people watching me, reading my stuff: friends, work colleagues, family... I would like to share my sweet obsessions with some of them. But with others, not so much...
I mean: who's going to take me seriously at work when they find out I'm giddy like a school girl over a TV series pairing, right? And maybe this is a part of me I don't feel I want to share with my family. Like a secret garden where I can play, dream, fantasize. My little corner of Eden, where characters' emotions, from tragedy to happiness, make me feel alive in a way real life cannot.
In truth, actually living the torn lives of these characters would be pretty stressful, but it's fun to don their clothes for a little while. To feel the danger, the passion, the sadness, the relentless hope, the moral compass, the will to live at all cost. It's fun to "be" one of them even if for a moment.
That's what I feel now when I look at the couple of Damon and Elena from the Vampire Diaries. I just love Damon. I get him. His character is getting deeper with every episode. I love to discover how the "bad boy" is really not that bad after you understand what happened to him. I feel for him and identify with some of his outcast traits. I also love to feel how Elena has accepted him with all his flaws and how she believed in him when no one else did. Isn't it the essence of love to see in another person a truth no one else has been able to detect, to love that person for it and to help him/her discover this truth and nurtur it? I find it the most moving testimony of selflessness and caring.
And it's so rare. I've only experienced it one true time myself. Maybe that's why I'm so engrossed in the Delena couple. Because it allows me to re-live one of the most profound moments of goodness I've been able to experience first hand.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my Delena love with my anonymous LJ friends who know me for my passion for beautiful, deep, characters, and accept me despite the weirdness of it. Thank you for accepting it all...
It's kind of freeing, isn't it? On FB, I have all sorts of people watching me, reading my stuff: friends, work colleagues, family... I would like to share my sweet obsessions with some of them. But with others, not so much...
I mean: who's going to take me seriously at work when they find out I'm giddy like a school girl over a TV series pairing, right? And maybe this is a part of me I don't feel I want to share with my family. Like a secret garden where I can play, dream, fantasize. My little corner of Eden, where characters' emotions, from tragedy to happiness, make me feel alive in a way real life cannot.
In truth, actually living the torn lives of these characters would be pretty stressful, but it's fun to don their clothes for a little while. To feel the danger, the passion, the sadness, the relentless hope, the moral compass, the will to live at all cost. It's fun to "be" one of them even if for a moment.
That's what I feel now when I look at the couple of Damon and Elena from the Vampire Diaries. I just love Damon. I get him. His character is getting deeper with every episode. I love to discover how the "bad boy" is really not that bad after you understand what happened to him. I feel for him and identify with some of his outcast traits. I also love to feel how Elena has accepted him with all his flaws and how she believed in him when no one else did. Isn't it the essence of love to see in another person a truth no one else has been able to detect, to love that person for it and to help him/her discover this truth and nurtur it? I find it the most moving testimony of selflessness and caring.
And it's so rare. I've only experienced it one true time myself. Maybe that's why I'm so engrossed in the Delena couple. Because it allows me to re-live one of the most profound moments of goodness I've been able to experience first hand.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my Delena love with my anonymous LJ friends who know me for my passion for beautiful, deep, characters, and accept me despite the weirdness of it. Thank you for accepting it all...