Really, I started this blog for myself more than for anyone else. It doesn't really matter if anyone else reads or gains anything from my writings. But, as you may well see, the fact is that I love stories. I love stories in all their varieties. From a Broadway musical, to a sappy love novel, to a scientific journal. Every thing we do as humans is to take the unknown and make it knowable. Take the incomprehensible and make it understood. I think that life isn't understood through decimal points and measurements, but through the stories we create and the stories we search for.
I know, “gag me with an existential spoon,” right? Well, just stay with me.
Because of my love of stories and ideas, I was able to keep them with me, as I entered a phase of my life with the singular title, ‘Clinical Depression’. The bad kind of depression. The kind that makes your drop out of school, quit your job, and think about stepping out of the picture altogether.
Thankfully now, I’m on the mend and my life has a positive direction again. But during it all I started watching Horror Movies. Movies in general were a good distraction. They were stories I could get wrapped up in and forget about my sad reality. But Horror Movies were something else all together. In them, I was absorbed. The fear and terror drew me in like vortex. The fear the hero/heroin felt became my fear. Their anxiety was mine. It was like being washed in a sea of emotion so real and so present, that my depression was long forgotten.
How could I bemoan my own pathetic job hunt, when Sidney Prescott was being hunted by the Ghost-Face Killer. How could I worry about my non-existent social life when the Alien was bursting through Kane chest on that starship. I couldn't. I was enraptured.
Now before you say anything, I have (and continue to) receive proper medical treatment. Medication is a wonderful thing. But I had turned on a switch inside myself, and I couldn't get enough of the horror.
As I move forward in my education I will learn from the greats and classics of the horror genre as well as embracing the latest and newest fear artists.
I invite all of you with questions about films and terror to come along. You have the chance to watch a novice of horror cinema dive into the deep end of filmography and see your favorite classics through fresh new eyes. Doesn't a new vantage point make a story new again?
Give me your feedback and follow along as I treat demoralization with Horror Movie Medication .
I know, “gag me with an existential spoon,” right? Well, just stay with me.
Because of my love of stories and ideas, I was able to keep them with me, as I entered a phase of my life with the singular title, ‘Clinical Depression’. The bad kind of depression. The kind that makes your drop out of school, quit your job, and think about stepping out of the picture altogether.
Thankfully now, I’m on the mend and my life has a positive direction again. But during it all I started watching Horror Movies. Movies in general were a good distraction. They were stories I could get wrapped up in and forget about my sad reality. But Horror Movies were something else all together. In them, I was absorbed. The fear and terror drew me in like vortex. The fear the hero/heroin felt became my fear. Their anxiety was mine. It was like being washed in a sea of emotion so real and so present, that my depression was long forgotten.
How could I bemoan my own pathetic job hunt, when Sidney Prescott was being hunted by the Ghost-Face Killer. How could I worry about my non-existent social life when the Alien was bursting through Kane chest on that starship. I couldn't. I was enraptured.
Now before you say anything, I have (and continue to) receive proper medical treatment. Medication is a wonderful thing. But I had turned on a switch inside myself, and I couldn't get enough of the horror.
As I move forward in my education I will learn from the greats and classics of the horror genre as well as embracing the latest and newest fear artists.
I invite all of you with questions about films and terror to come along. You have the chance to watch a novice of horror cinema dive into the deep end of filmography and see your favorite classics through fresh new eyes. Doesn't a new vantage point make a story new again?
Give me your feedback and follow along as I treat demoralization with Horror Movie Medication .
