Twilight's Mystic

4:23 PM 12/17/2008

I just went through 2 of 4 books of Twilight in less than 5 days making this the fastest book-reading feat I've ever done in my entire reading life. I just took a break and I plan to start reading the 3rd book "Eclipse" in a few hours. It isn't nice to read a book at twilight time - it isn't dark but it isn't bright as well.

And I'm checking my emails going through a list of things to do, talking to my girlfriend on the phone from LA and when she signs off it sort of hits me why "Twilight" has made such an impact on people and probably why its so popular. After two books, I realized I was transported into another world.

A world wherein the possibility of "good vampires" does exist as well as werewolves loving human beings and protecting us from "bad vampires". I have no illusions to what is reality from fiction. I am faced with my own set of realities on a daily basis. But in the few hours I got so immersed in the story, I honestly wanted the fiction to be real. Not about vampires and werewolves roaming the streets - not that part. But the part that a man or a vampire at that - could actually love one woman so much it absorbs him so much to a point it takes over and controls him.

That kind of love is no longer real in this world we live in and if it were, maybe its in Forks. But definitely not within the immediate vicinity nor locality.

And it also hits me that people are probably reacting to "Twilight's" mystic unconsciously because of that longing to find the "one" person who can erase everything else except themselves, nothing else matters except them. Very seldom have I met couples who can get "that" immersed with each other that nothing else can bother them. I guess a lot of people just want what Bella and Edward found - each other, the other half of each others soul... if vampire's do have souls.

But on the other hand - has reality become too bleak that normal human beings can't find that kind of intense love with another human being anymore? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe that kind of love only exists in stories like "Twilight" and people react to it as wildly because it echoes the same needs, we all have our own thirsts to quench. It takes a vampire story to show humans the real essence of true love. Funny, but its true. And we are all still in search of the other half of our soul.