The dream that I never dreamed.

These days, I am extremely annoyed and fascinated at the same time by the obsession among teenagers over the book series called Twilight. Or more like an obsession over a fictional character.
I gotta admit, I did get hooked at one point because there's a boy/vampire that is just so damn fascinating. The book is a perfect page-turner for teenagers and I admit, the series is well written.
Edward Cullen is probably the most desired male in today's teenage world. He is a 17-year-old vampire who has "angelic face," tons of money, drives a Volvo and loves the main character unconditionally. Who wouldn't dream about a guy like Edward? I know I did, even when I'm happily in a relationship.
But what I've realized is that afterall, Edwards is FICTIONAL.
What good does it do to fantasize about someone that is not real? What good does that do in life? Those single teenage girls are setting their expectations of their ideal boyfriends way too high by comparing them with Edward.
It's really sad, actually, to see those girls chittering away about how wonderful and great Edward is. Instead of wasting time over this dude in a book, why not go out and find someone who's more realistic? Anyone can be Edward if he had all eternity to himself, lived 200 years, had unlimited money, doesn't need to eat or sleep and good looking.
But hey, that's just not going to happen, now is it?
I know how those girls feel-- they don't have boyfriends and if they did, they want someone like Edward. The fact that he does not exist pulls the heartstrings even more.
I know I'll read the final installment of the book when it comes out, but I'm not going to read it for Edward-- I'm going to read it so I know how it's going to end.
I once used to obsess over an anime character back when I was in middle school. Me and my friends talked about him, put pictures of him on our websites, discussed how great he was and acted like girls. It's all fun and exciting. But all it did was killed some time and nothing more.
What I find it disturbing is that girls who obsess over Edward is not only middle school kids-- some are almost at the legal age, or some are over 18.
OK, let me be frank-- that's fucking creepy.
Obsessing over some FICTIONAL character-- not even a celebrity-- is just not OK at the ripe age where they should be focusing on real life and real people. Liking--even loving-- the book (which is written for ages 13 to maybe 16)is fine. But obsessing over a character and dreaming about him and constantly talking about him with others-- now that's disturbing.
All I gotta say is that obsession is not a good thing.
Obsession over anything-- chocolate, pot, driving, a person, thing or a character-- is not the healthiest thing to do.
So, please, close the damn Twilight book, get your hair done, buy some skinny jeans, wear some makeup, CLOSE THE DAMN BOOK, shut up and go out to find someone who can get you laid in real life.

You'll thank me later.

MIYU

p.s. What ended my infatuation over edward? Afer few volumes of the series, he started to remind me too much like my boyfriend. I'm dead serious. That's why i don't like edward anymore. He doesnt fascinate me anymore.