a ramble
it happens every once in a great while. you find a show that really speaks to you, that emotionally motivates you to open up. you fall in love with the characters, you sympathize with thier pains and rejoice in thier victories. you scream, you laugh, you cry. you cant get enough of it, you have to watch every show of every season and in order so you can fully appreciate not only the storyline but the characters and where they come from. its like making new freinds. its experiencing thier emotions but without actually having to deal with the consequenses yourself. for that hour you are watching the episode, you can open yourself and let your feelings run rampant. and when its over you can just close yourself right back up.
so is this a good thing or a bad thing? putting ourselves through the supposed catharsis of heartbreak and rejection, devastation, remorse, regret... I mean sure there are moments where everything is perfect and theyre in love and you are so happy you could burst. but this is not a book, not some fairy tale where things are going to end happily ever after. things will get fucked up, if only to continue on into the next season. you go back and watch the episode where they first meet... but you know that later in the season he is going to propose to her, and then die before the night is through. bad things just keep happening. we will continue to be dissapointed. so why do we still watch?
have we become so numb that we need to experience other peoples emotions? even if they are negative ones? maybe we need to forget the mess of our own lives and look at some elses. hey it may be fictional, but it looks real. and it makes our life look a hell of a lot easier. or are we simply being optomistic that one day he will come back, they will finally get together, everything will just turn out ok? because really thats how we look at life. you wake up each day hoping things will be better, if not good. hoping that your mistakes wont come back to haunt you and the choices you make today will make you the person you are supposed to be. hoping that everything will just turn out ok...
so is this a good thing or a bad thing? putting ourselves through the supposed catharsis of heartbreak and rejection, devastation, remorse, regret... I mean sure there are moments where everything is perfect and theyre in love and you are so happy you could burst. but this is not a book, not some fairy tale where things are going to end happily ever after. things will get fucked up, if only to continue on into the next season. you go back and watch the episode where they first meet... but you know that later in the season he is going to propose to her, and then die before the night is through. bad things just keep happening. we will continue to be dissapointed. so why do we still watch?
have we become so numb that we need to experience other peoples emotions? even if they are negative ones? maybe we need to forget the mess of our own lives and look at some elses. hey it may be fictional, but it looks real. and it makes our life look a hell of a lot easier. or are we simply being optomistic that one day he will come back, they will finally get together, everything will just turn out ok? because really thats how we look at life. you wake up each day hoping things will be better, if not good. hoping that your mistakes wont come back to haunt you and the choices you make today will make you the person you are supposed to be. hoping that everything will just turn out ok...