So the lion fell in love with the lamb

It was November 2008. I started seeing all these posters on the buses in London. It was about a movie and it showed a picture of a young guy holding a girl. The letters on the top said 'Twilight'.

A friend of mine from the US, knowing how much I enjoy watching movies, wrote to me suggesting I should go watch it. I went... And the story I saw in the movie was like no other I had ever seen in romantic movies before...

Bella was not going around trying to find Prince Charming, like we see many girls do nowadays. She actually liked her life. She didn't go to parties, got herself drunk now and then, blamed her parents for her mundane existence or tried to be better than the next girl. She didn't try to fit in the mold of 'teenage life'. That was really nice to watch.

Then she finds Edward...

Yes, Edward is a vampire in the movie. I don't particularly like that part, but again, we are talking about a movie here and they have this sort of thing in movies.

Edward is a very different kind of guy. He's NOT after girls or after proving himself to others and when he finds the girl he truly likes, he is not looking what she can give him, but rather what he can offer her, what he can sacrifice for her. He wants to take care of her and make her happy.

And that, my friend, is the whole secret behind the Twilight fever.

People like Edward and everything he represents when it comes to love life.

Some crazy people like the fact that he is a vampire, they even dress all in black trying to look like one. I'm not talking about these people. I'm talking about those who like the love story, who like they way the boy treats the girl. They see it on the screen and wish they could experience that in real life. 

So no wonder while 'the lion was falling in love with the lamb', a lot of girls (and older women too) were falling in love with Edward Cullen!

And that's one of the bad things about Twilight, not because of the movie itself, but because of the people who watched it. Girls see this fictitious perfect guy and now they are after him, they want someone like Edward. They want him and dream of finding him.  But how crazy is that? It's like trying to find Thor or the Batman! Hello??

Edward Cullen is as real as the vampires in the movie, but many girls are right now on a quest to find the one who will sweep them off their feet just like Edward did with Bella. They want the perfect guy and yet they are not perfect themselves... Is that even fair?

Continues next Thursday...