Addiction. Everyone has an addiction. I don’t care who you are! It could be smoking cigarettes or Marijuana or even both, it could be over eating, undereating, over excersizing, it could be gaming, motorcycles, the list goes on. Addiction is in all of us! It’s what we are addicted to that tells society what kind of a person we
Personally I have a few addictions, I am a smoker, I love my mountain dew,I enjoy tanning, but most of all my biggest addiction is Game of Thrones!
A few years ago I met my current boyfriend, he would tell me I need to get into Game of Thrones, at this time I was two seasons behind, which didn’t seem all too bad except in a show like this you need to know the past history in order to understand the events of the present. I honestly tried to get into it. Every Sunday while the third season was airing I would venture over to his sisters for the show. I gave it a few tries before completely giving up! I would go there, cuddle up next to him and fall asleep through pretty much the entire episode in return missing yet another season.
Maybe I didn’t care enough, maybe it wasn’t my time to tune in, or maybe I just didn’t take the time to invest myself in it.
A year goes by and it’s almost time for season four. My boyfriend has big plans for this season. He buys a subscription for HBO now and invites a mutual friend over for every episode, prior to it airing. The boys fantasies about what meals we’ll have during the show. I decide to sit down and give this show another try, just me, myself, a quiet room, and Game of Thrones.I should have enough time to down 3 seasons before season four Aires. Let’s go….
Episode 1, I’m in, I’m enjoying the drama, but I’m still a little confused. The way they talk, some of their non existent words I can’t understand. Oh shit NED! Alright! I’m in now! I dive in to all three seasons taking in every death, sacrifice, devastating news, and build a love hate relationship with the show. It took me a few short weeks to get through the first three and it was just in time for season four!
The time has come. We watch season four, a year later we watch season five. And now we are in the middle of season six. I can not tell you how many times I have watched each episode. I am addicted to this show! It never gets old. I rewatch and rewatch with out a care in the world! Recently I even asked for the books because I hear they’re differences in the books verses the series and I want to know everything about it, from start to finish!
I blame a lot of this on the life I live. I have never been one that’s into fantasy, I’m more of a realist and prefer true stories or dramas with the occasional horror flick. But when I finally started to actually tune in I had a lot going on with my daughter and miscarriages, I blame my addiction on the fact that where a drug addiction takes a drug to escape reality, I watch this show to escape from my reality. It brings me to a place I have never been, nor will I ever go. I can love and hate characters while being sucked into the drama of it all and most importantly forget the background noise I call life for a quick hour.
Why do we want so bad to become adults only to get here and not want to adult anymore. We seek out ways to escape reality, everyone of us. It maybe one thing or another as time goes on, it can even be multiple addictions. To say addiction is a disease I think is a far fetched statement. I think it lives in all of us and it stems from how we handle life once we become adults. The important thing when it comes to addiction is finding one that doesn’t hurt you in the long run. Maybe all of us should take the time to find a little fantasy to escape to once in a while.
The road to here. My perspective. 