Reality Check!

Over the past few years, I have noticed so many people getting almost too involved with the lives of celebrities they idolize and the movies/TV shows they love best. I am not saying that I am above it all, or that I do not enjoy these things immensely myself. As a matter of fact, I was literally addicted to TV for about a year of my life, if not more. I got my GED to get out of high school early because I did not want to spend a year re-adjusting to a new school only to graduate in the end. I still did not really know what I wanted to do as far as a degree or anything like that yet, and there was not very much for me to do at home. So I got caught in a rut, and ended up spending all day at my Grandma's house watching TV from sunup to sunset. That is not an exaggeration.
That being said, no matter how much time I spend watching a movie or TV, while I may think it'd be cool to be one of those people, it never becomes "real" for me, or rather as real as others try to make it for themselves. Not in the way I have seen so many others portray. For instance, I will never enter a throng of girls, women, and even mothers who are screaming "OMG ROBERT PATTINSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BITE ME BITE ME!!!!!!!!" I love Twilight just as much as the next person, and I gotta admit I think it'd be cool to be a vampire, but, c'mon now...

Today, my girlfriend dumped me proclaiming she wanted someone more like her "Edward". I asked her who Edward was. She held up a copy her "Twilight" book. She was talking about a fictional vampire. FML

- quoted from FML

There are many movies and TV shows I do not want to see (ever).  There are even more that I've purposefully chosen not to see, despite their popularity, because I knew too many of the fans who were too overwhelmingly excited about it.  The Twilight fans I know are like, "Oh, I love Twilight!!" and then we have a short conversation about favorite parts of the movie or books and then we move on.  There are no "Edward is so cute!" gasps for air or girlish screams.  We take it as it is.  A beautiful story, written by a talented woman who had a dream and built it into something so much more for our personal entertainment.  The books became movies, which created even more entertainment to be shared with friends who are so much better than Edward, Bella, Jacob, or any other character because they are real. 

I think it is time for a reality check.  We girls would all love so much to be Bella, or Sookie (from True Blood) or some other favorite female character.  But where does that come from?  Why would any woman practically swoon at the idea of being at the side of a vampire?  I can tell you what that is for me...  I've been told before that I am very near "mysterious".  I am a private person, who longs to be an open book.  It would be a great relief to me to find that one special someone whom I can write to, and know that they will read and cherish every single line of writing.  To know that they will beg for more, despite what I've written before...  To be able to open myself up completely, totally, without fear of rejection or worse.  I found that person in Drew, and I am so thankful for him.  Women want to be wanted.  We desire to be shown that we're adored, loved, respected, treated like a queen... and the list goes on.  And for the guys?  They are looking for someone who will build their egos.  It would be so much easier if they could just be Edward or Vampire Bill.  A person who is so much older than modern day times that they have the chivalry women seem to find so attractive, while still holding true to their masculinity.

I would love to read others' opinion on this as I think it is a matter that concerns all...