My Obsession with Vampires

My obsession with vampires, ok maybe that is a little widespread, my obsession with Edward Cullen to be exact. Thats right, the Twilight Saga which everyone keeps on telling me is for teenagers - I know that and I dont care!!!! Having read all 4 books in the space of 2 weeks anything that makes me carry round a 3kg book round London has to be good. And I am not the only one, only this morning sitting on the tube a girl sitting next to me was reading Breaking Dawn ( Book 4) albeit I was ahead of her ( Lucky thing, she still has so much more to look forward to!), a number of my other 27 year old friends ( married or otherwise) have also confessed to their secret obsession! What is it that we girls love about him so? Where do I begin...He's gorgeous, perfectly frozen in time at the age of 17 but with a mental age of an 108 year old - who said boys were immature? Being born in 1801 he is a complete gentleman and likes to adhere to the gentlemanly conduct of opening doors for you, laying his cloak over puddles, no sex before marriage...that sort of thing. He doesnt play games and he knows what he wants, he hates being away from Bella ( his girlfriend) and watches her while she sleeps ( slightly weird but thats because Vampires dont sleep). The romantics call him protective, dedicated and loyal, the feminists call him creepy, controlling and stalkerish. For me, it is because he believes in unconditional eternal love - and when he means eternal he means forever. Thats the kind of love I am looking for, maybe not from a vampire necessarily (we could never go on a sunny holiday for a start), but someone who loves me just the way I am, no matter what and more importantly Forever.

Therefore its not really about Edward being a vampire at all or that I am nearly thirty and in love with a fictional character. Its the same thing, the same feeling we all want to have, the one that you cant describe, the one that makes you warm and your stomach jump, the one that when you see others have it you wish you did too, the one that makes us who we are. It must be love. A forever kinda love. Just like Ben Harper said.



(That said, it is still not going to stop me having a girly Friday night, watching Twilight the movie, drooling at Rob Pattison as Edward and my obligatory glass of vino!)