[ SECRET POST #1979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1979 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/8du3Z.png

[mollywobbles867]

I do too. Happened to me after my dad died.

[ooh_mrdarcy]

Same here.
Not proud of that time in my life.

[(Anonymous)]

Please don't feel that way. I've dealt with this too. It is nothing to be ashamed of. :) I know some people disagree, but screw them.

[rbhudson]

Yeah, it sucks when you can relate to Twilight, because the books are awful. But I have definitely felt that way before. Not over a boy of course, but I'm not invalidating anyone's feelings by saying that's not traumatic too.

[unicornherds]

Never read the books and I really hate to have anything at all in common with Bella, but yeah. I've been there. Repeatedly. It's something I have to keep very conscious of because it's incredibly easy for me to slip into this auto coasting along mindset and before you know it years have passed and you have nothing accomplished.

[majorshipper]

I think we've all felt like that at one time or another.

[elialshadowpine]

^ this.

[spicandspan89.livejournal.com]

I feel you, OP. Also, I think there are many aspects of Twilight to which people could relate, which is what helped make them such a mega-success.

That said, IMO people are able to relate to Bella because she's a totally blank slate, ready for them to project themselves onto.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a chronic depression so my life has been less or more like that for years. It's possible. I haven't read the books but I heard about the empty pages thing and thought it was pretty clever actually. In a better book it could have a good impact.

[i_paint_the_sky]

Yeah, just from a writing style perspective it was incredibly powerful. There is something similar done in The Host as well, though I won't say what for spoilers.

I haven't quite been there myself personally but I still found it something I could completely understand, motivation and all (Bella is a hormonal teenager, after all). I actually think the emotional bond that is possible with Bella is Stephanie Meyer's greatest strength as a writer (she isn't impressive at anything else but for me, Bella just got really into my head somehow, even though I don't particularly like her).

[(Anonymous)]

I know what you mean, OP. That kind of thing sucks. It's like nothing means much any more, and I could definitely feel for that, too, when I read the books.

[saiika_von_maou]

Yeah, I've had my moments of relating to Bella, too. There was a point where I felt so disconnected from people that I could actually see some of myself in the way she treated others. And, truthfully, these past few months I've been struggling with so much anxiety and depression that I can understand feeling like the months are just passing you by. It's pretty jarring. (Especially that first one, for me. I mean, who wants to see themselves in a girl who shuns people that are trying to be nice to her?)

[la_petite_singe]

IMO, that part is realistic and understandable--it's just that she never learns from it. Like, she falls into a depression because she loses her man, and then snaps out of it once she gets him back. There's no, like, "I love him but I learned that I can live without him because I don't need a man to complete me." Nope. She kinda does. AAUGH.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was horrified when I discovered that I empathized with Bella in one way- I absolutely hate, hate, hate my birthday and acknowledgments about it. At least your empathizing is understandable and rational.