Amy Venezia

 

 

Immortality, chivalry, ravenous sex, soul mates, romance, valor, protection, magic, mystery, desire, passion, loyalty, mindreading, diving into the depths of one’s own darkness just to be saved by one’s own light in the nick of time….

 

Bella, Edward, Bill, Sookie…

 

Is there really a question as to why Vampires have stolen the hearts of people across this suppressed country?

 

 

What woman doesn’t want her man looking at her like he can’t cross the room  quick enough to devour her?

 

What man doesn’t want the innocent yet, passionate woman who is in utter adoration towards them…in such need of their protection.

 

Obviously, the vampire story is nothing new. The Vampire story plays on the very basic and primal needs in both men and women.

 

Being wanted and needed? The basic nutrients and miracle growth needed to a male ego.

 

Being faithful, loyal, protective and having ‘eyes only for you’…can’t help myself, it is in my basic makeup to want you and only you? Everything a woman has ever wanted in a man.

 

Having an excuse or free pass to have neck twisting, explosive sex (had to watch True Blood to get that one)…walking a constant fine line between love and hate…acting on your every urge and passion…if, even just for a day?

 

Could go on and on…

 

There are so many reasons this is sweeping the nation…

 

But, the number one being…they are literally hitting a vein in our world right now. The irony in it all is instead of being bloodsucking villains, vampires are helping put the blood back into a dry and becoming heartless, society.

 

I was in Borders books the other day and one of the cashiers asked me what I thought about the whole Twilight series…

 

She was young, maybe just in college. For some reason, she felt I was the one to make conversation with.

 

I stood there as she looked at me, waiting for my answer.

 

I looked at her and said, “It comes down to what we all want. Chemistry so powerful with another; connection so deep it is almost psychic. Passion so strong it is like a force in its own. Love so true, it is eternal. And, some kind of bond between each other that no matter what another does; you will always come back to that bond. ”

 

What a relief…pressure all off. Knowing you can make a mistake. Knowing no mistake is big enough to break it. Nothing can separate you from the love of the other. It is destined. A sure thing. It is forever.

 

I am going to get really deep here…try and come with me:).

 

If there is such thing as a Higher Power, if you believe at all, no matter what your beliefs. Isn’t that what we are all trying to get back to every day? Feeling that nothing can separate us from that love? There is no mistake that will make that love turn away. The feeling that no matter what we choose, what path we end up walking, we won’t be forsaken. We won’t experience loss.

 

Maybe that is why we search and long for it so much in another person. Because, there is this whole in all of us…a part of us that wants to acknowledge the shadow side of being human, as well as the light and be loved for it all. No matter what.

 

Or, maybe we’re just fascinated…;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh Twilight! Oh New moon! Oh Edward!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh My?

 

 

 

 

I do everything backwards…or better said, late.

 

 

 

 

 

It took me six years to finally watch Titanic when it first came out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anything society runs to? I usually run from.

 

 

 

 

 

Has always been my way.

 

 

 

 

 

So, of course, in the airport the other day- I decide to buy a copy of “ New Moon” to read on the plane.

 

 

 

 

 

Mind you, I have not read the first in the series- “ Twilight”, or seen the movie.

 

 

 

 

 

Up until that point I had been a bit confused about the phenomenon of Edward and Bella.

 

 

 

 

 

Granted, their are some hot people in the movie…

 

 

 

 

But enough to set a nation and parts of the world in some chaotic explosion of hormones-ranging from the high school student to the stay at home mother?

 

 

 

 

 

I wasn’t half way through the book when it was so utterly clear to me.

 

 

 

 

 

Can you believe we are living in a time when the love of and from a VAMPIRE has more heart in it  than the love in most human relations to date?

 

Ironic as it may seem-

 

 

 

 

 

It is the truth. The Vampire has more heart…

 

 

 

 

 

No wonder the teenagers are nuts over it- it actually has life, passion, devotion, patience, and the ever so dying belief in soul mates too?

 

 

 

 

 

Something that The Hills, Paris Hilton, reality TV and half of the music created today is lacking-

 

 

 

 

 

HEART AND SOUL.

 

 

 

I’m not saying it is 100 % realistic- but isn’t that what every human secretly longs for?

 

 

 

 

 

The hope or even chance there is another out there- that the tie that binds is so great and strong with- that no matter who or what may come its way, the bond cannot be broken.

 

 

 

 

 

But in a society where women have started taking on the role of sexual aggressors and commitment phobic’s- and men are taking on the role of silent martyrs and double life jugglers of their thoughts and desires vs. what is expected and accepted in order to keep peace-

 

 

 

 

 

There is no room for soul anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

No, soul is being choked out by the weeds of narcissistic, self gratifying soul extinguishers- kind of the “Vampires” of our time.

 

 

 

 

 

Yet it brings a smile to my face to see how many millions are nostalgic…

 

 

 

 

 

Remembering destiny, fiery love and sacrifice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I took myself on a little date to see New moon. Mostly because I am too empathetic to drag a man out to it- all I would be doing is picking up his ducking behind my hair and the bag of popcorn hoping he isn’t going to run into someone he knows.

 

 

 

 

 

No, I wanted to watch it with no distractions.

 

 

 

 

 

 I was twice the age of every girl in there…

 

 

 

 

 

I thought to myself, uh oh-

 

 

 

 

 

Someone better warn these girls that if they are expecting a smooth, poetic, passionate, fiercely loyal and “eyes for one girl only” type of guy in life…

 

 

 

 

 

That is the part that bothered me the most.

 

 

 

 

 

That and Bella- the girl willing to give up her life, her soul and her everything. All that mattered in her existence was him…

 

 

 

 

 

Romantic? Yes.

 

 

 

 

 

Beautifully romantic.

 

 

 

 

 

But how is it we either have love that is to that extreme, Bella and Edwards…or love like we see on the Bachelor, pick em’ like a race horse…may the best one win.

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know about you, but the more the days pass on, the more my soul is begging for some balance.

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t want to ever lose myself again when it comes to love-

 

 

 

 

 

But I don’t want to have the depth of a pothole either.

 

 

 

 

 

I want to dive deep, but also be able to touch my toes to the bottom at times.

 

 

 

 

 

Can you really call it love if there is a guarantee?

 

 

 

 

 

So easy to love others when they love you back.

 

 

 

 

 

But what of love and vulnerability when the outcome is unsure?

 

 

 

 

 

In today’s world and today’s cultures, how is love being re-defined?

 

 

 

 

 

I think the best bet is to not “define” love at all.

 

 

 

 

 

Just let it be.

 

 

 

 

 

 It is an innate instinct in us. That when left to run wild and free-  is true because it is true to oneself first.

 

 

 

 

 

Although, I could handle being bitten by Robert Pattinson:)