Revisiting One Tree Hill

Seeing Bethany Joy Lenz on the new season of Dexter reminded me of when I was first introduced to her on One Tree Hill. The teen show that should've stayed a teen show and ended when the characters graduated, but The CW being what they are kept hold of it until it couldn't any longer. The show was good at the beginning from what I recall (it was ten years ago) but became completely unrecognisable in the later seasons, and ridiculously far fetched and cringeworthy. I mean seriously, the return of evil nanny Carrie and the Clay's wife's evil doppleganger? It was appalling, but I kept watching for some reason. I always do.

Lynch's Big Dream

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults, but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” David Lynch couldn’t have said it better. In this day and age everything seems to be against us and we forget how to stay true to our core beings. We learn how to limit ourselves, give less, ask for less, when in fact we all deserve the world. This is no ‘Learn how to stay positive in 5 simple steps’ but I do believe that if we all managed to go back and see everything through the eyes of the kids we were, the world would be an easier place to inhabit. We would be fearless in the choices we make, the things we say, the way we express ourselves.

Obsessions. How much is too much?

One day, a few years ago I was walking home from high-school on a gloomy autumn day. I don’t exactly know what made me turn to it, but I believe I was having a particularly bad day (teenage identity crisis of some sort). I had a light bulb moment and I knew that there was one thing only that could improve my mood. And I did it. I walked into the store and bought myself a few sachets of hot chocolate. I was also home alone, which infused me with a sense of cozy loneliness - the type that you long for after you've had the longest family dinner with your inquisitive relatives (that you wish never to have met, for that matter). And it happened so quickly. I was hooked. I became a junkie for hot chocolate. I drank my body weight in hot chocolate. I wished hot chocolate would run though the tap. This soon made me realize that my obsession, as delicious as it was, needed to come to an end.