Thursday, March 13, 2014

Do you ever feel like you could live and die infinitely through the characters you most admire? Perpetually shaping yourself after those you find most exquisite. Molding our general behaviors, our idiosyncrasies to sync with those we find commendable in stories.

I will forever admire the charisma associated with Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars. The magnetism associated with his easy smile, his limping gait no more a put off than his bright blue eyes. Loud and boisterous at times and other times taciturn, content in staying silent and happy, Augustus was kind and he knew how to love. Whether it was Isaac or Hazel, he was willing  to love, endlessly and passionately. He was charismatic and I wish I could be.



John Bender from  The Breakfast Club was neither charming nor friendly. He spoke his mind and he wasn't afraid to do so, and that is what I admire about him. He was a child who had grown tough in a world that taught him it was the only way to be and he learned to speak through that. I appreciate his struggle and I admire his honest and blatant views of the world, seen through the eyes of someone who has already seen too much. He is true to himself and I wish I could be.




We build ourselves from the bottom up, out of people we wish to be. I wish I were smarter like Hermione Granger, brave like Tris Prior, as full of love a midst adolescent angst as Vada Sultenfuss. We are exactly who we want to be, and yet, we never are enough. As long as new characters emerge, causing intense self-speculation, we will evolve into the form of who we want to be.

Infinitely, we merge with those we are shown, amalgamating everything we have ever come to love and creating a person we can come to love from it.