Twilight and What it means to me

All I can see these days is romance. Romance everywhere, presenting itself to me in a variety of forms, popping out at me from unexpected corners. Maybe all this started with my brief stint with the Twilight and The princess diaries. I know it is very childish to swoon and drool over  romance books. But I couldn't help it. When such good stuff gets thrown at you, you cannot turn a blind eye. The way I found myself consumed by the beautiful pages of twilight is so typical. So magical. My cousin came for the summer holidays from the US. I noticed this book lying in her bag. She warned me not to touch anything in her bag. But being the girl I am (an ardent bookaholic), I checked out the book when she went out. And I couldn't put the book down during the rest of the day. Oh... she got quite angry with me. But that's another matter. Thus I got sucked, sucked into the misty and wet town of Forks, sucked into the lives of the most romantic couple I've ever known, sucked into an alien life (I read novels for that purpose alone). That was the beginning of my tryst with unconditional love and of course my love affair with the twilight series.

So what is it about romance that so turns people on?? I wondered. I pondered. I didn't get the answer and probably will never get. But what is it about twilight that makes crazy fans out of boring housewives?? What is it about twilight that caused a kind of sensation it is today?? It is being called the twilight phenomenon these days. What is it that stroke a chord with me??  That is a pretty answerable question. Is it the love between a human girl and a tantalizingly handsome vampire who is supposed to kill the girl because of  thirst but instead falls in love with?? Is it the beautiful and romantic scenes Stephenie Meyer throws them in? Is it the vampires with their impeccable beauty, superior strength and old worldly charms?? Or is it the  adolescent hunks who become cool werewolves?? I believe the answer does not lie in any of the above questions. The answer lies in between the lines of the prized pages of that novel. I admit the lines are all corny and clichéd but there in lies the charm of this worshiped book.  Yes. We love those lines. I love those lines. And I absolutely think that the success of the novel lies in how much it conveys between the lines. Yes yes. The gist of the whole reading between the lines for me in this book is love. Just plain old love. Any love. Every kind of love. And the human weakness. And in this case vampire and werewolf weaknesses too. Not that they have too many weaknesses. Their weakness is love too. See. I'm amazed at how this treasured word pops up everywhere. I realized that  the core of every weakness in that book is thirst (pun intended). The thirst for pure, strong, unconditional, irresistible, irrevocable love.

Oh........ it meant a lot to me (the book I mean). And it does now too. It made me appreciate everything around me more fully. It made me see so much love that I couldn't have possibly seen before. It made me realize the obscene amount of love I could  possess in my veins, in my being. It made me more aware of my emotions. It taught me to be myself and never to run away from who you are. It taught me how to make do magnificently with what little I have. Finally it all comes down to loving myself. I learnt it in the most wonderful manner possible for which I fervently and happily thank my stars.

Cheers to love in this wonderful and extremely beautiful world of our's.