Of fandom and teenagers

We all have been teenagers, there's no way to deny it, maybe some of us have had more time to "enjoy" it while some other had to grow up faster because they were not so fortunate.

One of the things that uses to happen when you're a teenager is that you fall in love. A lot. You fall for girls, you fall for guys, you fall for pieces of clothing, you fall for a movie star, you fall for a musician, for a song, for whatever.

This is the period of your life when you become what is called a fan. The period when you want to marry that musician so much that you can't stand he or she is seeing someone else, the period of your life when you know everything about that person's life. The period of your life when you think that person is just perfect and anything bad they say about him or her is just envious bullshit. The period of your life when you feel that without this person you couldn't live.

If you're still in that period, believe me it finishes, and you'll be relieved when it's over.

Because of the internet, right now people have to withstand all the rabbiting about teen pop idols. Back when I was a teenager, ten years ago already, there was internet and there were teen pop idols, but it wasn't so spread, so people could say whatever they wanted and they wouldn't have thousands of hysterical teenagers insulting them. Unlike now, really, be brave and tweet something bad about one of this pop superstars, if you're lucky enough your comment will stay unnoticed, if not you'll receive several furious illiterate tweets about how this superstar is fabulous and perfect and would never ever do something like that, or even some tweets insulting you.

The bad thing about all this is that this fandom phenomena is not only for teenagers anymore, you can find grown-ups being as blind and narrow minded everywhere. When you grow up your perspective of the world is supposed to change and you know that everyone has flaws, and you learn to accept them and like them how they are. You learn that if you want to love someone you've to accept him or her the way he or she is. You learn that you can still like an actor or a musician, like not love, even if they are not a perfect moral standard, because you like them for what they do for a living and not because they are alive.

So how are this people, the grown up hysterical fans that now every detail of the live of their idols, supposed to function in the normal world? Do they keep falling in love to ideals putting pressure on their couples to be perfect and ruining it all? Do they quit their job just because it's not like the movies and they don't have enough time to learn all the minor details of their new obsession?

Personally, I feel it's sad when adults act like teenagers, I'm not saying that when you're a grown-up you cannot have fun and enjoy live, it's just that being an hysterical fan doesn't really allow you to discover new things and live life at its fullest.