New Moon

This guest post hit me yesterday morning and I could not get to the computer fast enough to type it up. Last Friday I decided to reread New Moon, and got sucked in to Eclipse, and I now have only 10 pages left in Breaking Dawn. This is the 4th time I have read this series, and I cannot believe how fun they still are! I hope you like and can relate to my thoughts. Thanks Meg for giving me an outlet!

I am 29. In one month I will be 30. My bestest girl friend just turned 29 and is freaking out a little about this. Our lives are ruled by responsibility and repetition. We are feeling a little down about this. We have both been married 9 years, and are stay at home Moms raising our children. At this stage of motherhood the only way to shake things up is to get involved and feel a sense of accomplishment. Some join the PTA, others a book club, many get a part time job just to get out of the house. But what about stirring up the emotions in us which we felt while young? This good friend of mine actually told me we needed to ask a single 21 year old what she does for fun. Yes, we are that pathetic.

I read a comment on Facebook by a friend that she was totally annoyed by all this New Moon hype. I had similar feelings about the Twilight Movie release (I was still a little in denial). But this time I feel differently. What makes grown women attend a midnight showing of a movie geared toward teenage girls? What makes them wear t-shirts proudly announcing “Bite me Edward”? I will tell you why. It is fun. It is not because I am obsessed over the characters. It is because of the emotions it stirs up inside of me. I WANT my heart to race over something other than being late for carpool. And I can relate to the themes in the books.

Twilight: Falling in love, a forbidden love.
New Moon: Being dumped, loving 2 men.
Eclipse: Choosing between 2 good lovers, cheating on your boyfriend with fiery hot kisses.
Breaking Dawn: Getting Married, Honeymoon, Pregnancy, Childbirth, fighting to keep your family.

I have experienced ALL these events, and let me tell you, it is sure fun to live these events over again. To feel all these complicated and deep emotions through a book is awesome! I love escaping my responsible life to feel like a young desirable girl again. Is that wrong? I don’t think so if every movie theater across the US are sold out for opening day weeks in advance.

You know what a single 21 year old does for fun? She screams over hot boys on the cover of magazines, dreams about kissing the sexiest man alive, and goes to midnight premiers of movies. She doesn’t worry about the 5 AM feeding of her 6 month old baby, or packing her kid’s lunch for school. She throws that all to the wind and giggles in the theater with her girlfriends waiting for the show to start. And that is how I feel alive. I embrace silly experiences to feel young again.