Having finished the 4 book series yesterday, I have to admit I am feeling a bit depressed. The last time I felt like this was the day after I got married. It seems as though when you're wrapped up in something so wonderful and you don't want to come up for air that once you do, you feel like you're drowning almost.
The post-wedding blues set on once the excitement dies down and you realize that all the butterflies and hours upon hours building up to the climactic event have been quieted. Surprisingly, I had a feeling this would happen once I closed the cover on Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer's final book in the Twilight Series. As I turned the last 5 pages, I felt the dred settling in and almost didn't want to keep reading. However, those last pages were no different than the previous 2000 of the saga and I simply couldn't bring myself to stop.
Never in my life have I been inspired to read a book more than once. I don't seem to have enough patience for flipping pages when I already know the outcome. My life has been changed forever... and on so many levels. I'm already running through my schedule for today in my head and looking for a few moments that I may be able to go back and pick up my now tattered edition of Twilight. The binding has been broken like many of Bella's favorite works and I know that something on the pages will catch my eye and draw me in once again to Edward's mysterious mind and Bella's unimaginable courage and honesty.
Stephenie is probably the most talented writer I've ever come across. It's rare to find such adventure, mystery, romance, intrigue and emotion all in one place.
Here's to not wanting it to ever end.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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I know what you mean.
yeah, I know what you mean. After something really awesome happens you are like "what just happened? Is it over already?"
I'm glad I'm not alone here... I just can't quite get enough and it's driving me nuts!
I finished reading Midnight Sun this afternoon, after spending the last 6 days reading the entire saga. I can't believe how depressed I feel. Almost to the point of tears and nausea... I wish I were joking.
i just finished reading the series again and while its not as bad as the first time around, i'm definitely in my own little depressed pot! Its crazy how I'm not alone and that this book series could do this to all of us.
Oh my god. I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I actually read this series because I initially thought I would hate it but I felt I should read before I judged it. I finished it in one week and then I immediately fell into a serious depression. I kept telling my fiancee how silly I felt about being depressed and missing fictional characters. Knowing other people feel this way actually makes me feel a great deal better. And knowing that you can get a repeat experience on a reread makes me feel better too. It just felt like I'd never be able to see these characters again because rereads hardly ever work the same.
Honestly, I am sick of myself for being so shallow and easily tempted into non-reality.
In my life nothing is missing. I have it all, love, well being, beauty, happiness and the road less travelled...
I am truely trying to find the real reason why some of us get sucked into this Saga so much, as from an outside perspective it actually is very very silly... Vampires going to HighSchool over and over again..., really ???
And worse of all, I am hurting the one I love most of all... by being drowned in Twilight rather then spending my time with him... So very irresponsible of me, as he is everything to me.
I have read this Saga now three times and cannot fathom what is so addicting? And why does one feel so depressed afterwards? It almost feels like all my positive energy has been sucked out of me to the point of nausea... truely perplexing...
I know I will get over it... again... !!!, but would still like an answer to why some of us get drawn into this stupid reality so much...
Like most of you I feel the same exact way!!! I thought I was a 17 year old maniac for being depressed after finishing Twilight alone and to make it worse I got the music from the soundtrack and was completely brought to tears by it... I hate feeling this way and I wish I could stop thinking about it..it's like living in a fantasy world literally for 3 or 4 hours (me was more like 5 or 6 hours) and then coming out of it and things look absolutely pathetic to how we live now...great job Stephenie, u have us crying our lives away!!!
This obsession, for me, is best described as DEMONIC, seriously! i mean, for something to have that much control over you, doesn't it seem demonic to you?? think about it. if you can't take pleasure in your life, even if you KNOW it has very good points, then the twilight obsession is definately DEMONIC!! the devil is very crafty and has obviously worked his way into the hearts and minds of millions of people through a 4 book series, and he also does it through movies and other books, etc. (i've heard the same thing is happening with the avatar movie). all he wants to do is make your life look crappy... he takes a murderous, demonic, canabalistic creature and turns it into something beautiful and desirable, like a siren or sucubus luring you in with their sensuality and charisma, then destroys your life!!! he makes you hate your own life and want a life you CAN'T have. how sick! LOOK HOW IT IS DETROYING OUR LIVES!!! LOOK AT ALL THE POSTS!!
i know a lot of you guys probably don't believe in God and Jesus, but i DO, and i am urging you all to seek Him in prayer for this psychotic phenomenon. i truly feel that these books are taking huge strongholds on people's lives and it needs to end!
i find that i still have the urge to watch the movies and read the books, but the only way to resolve this issue is to FORCE yourself to NOT read the books or watch the movies, etc. and to ask God to help you. that is the only thing that has helpd me, and i promise it will also help you!
if you need someone to talk to about all this, i would be more than happy to help you with this constant addictive craving. i have created a special e-mail for all of your questions... please e-mail me, i will do my best to give you advice and help you! GOD BLESS YOUR SWEET HEARTS, and good luck!
e-mail: break-the-twilight-spell@hotmail.com
p.s. dont be too hard of stephanie for it, she probably doesnt realize what she's doing to people, and hopefully it wasn't her intentions...but even the devil can give marvellous gifts to people. makes you think...
I just finished the series and fell into the WORST depression ever! I am still working my way out of it and have decided that i am going to use it to my ADVANTAGE! I am going to get off my butt and do everyhing in my power to MAKE my world a better place for my family and me...throw my energies into something useful...maybe we all should do the same! :)
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