3rd (and final) Twilight Revelation: The Vampire vs. The Werewolf



Werewolf...vampire...werewolf...vampire...werewolf...vampire...:p



The last thing I want to say about that day/night and those movies is, as it turned it, the most controversial point one could make. At some point during the break I said to the girls something like ‘You know, I kinda like the other guy better than your Edward’. Their eyes became wide, their mouths opened to produce a unanimous ‘Noooooooooooo!!!!!’ Apparently, I was a heretic for saying this and an explanation was demanded. This is what I said.

‘The vampire lied to her. I know he does that to protect her, but still. He lies. Honesty is the first rule of every healthy, serious relationship. Then, this werewolf is so patient with her and takes care of her, whereas the other guy left her. No girl in her right mind wants a guy who lies to her and leaves her.’

2nd Twilight Revelation: Inter-specieal dating

As the second movie proceeded I became absolutely fascinated. Suddenly there were two supernatural guys and one girl. Three different species! Inter-specieal dating J

At some point during the movie I chuckled. It wasn’t a funny moment and Priya shot me a dark look which I had to explain during the break. In a nutshell,  this is what happened in the beginning of the movie. The vampire realizes how vulnerable his human girlfriend is in his world and leaves her and lies about it in order to protect her. She’s heart-broken and reaches out to the werewolf, who makes her feel better and almost heals her. Now, I chuckled because at that point I knew she was developing feelings for the werewolf. When I said this to the girls they looked at me as if I was an ancient prophet.

‘How do you know?!’ they gaped at me.

‘I know love.’ was my answer. In that moment, I changed from chauffeur and babysitter, to the cool, all-knowing cousin :D

‘Look,’ I explained, ‘when you’re hurting and someone manages to heal you, love is usually the cure. Unless, you go to the doctor for a broken leg. There is a bond between them and it’s different than with the vampire, it’s less intense, easier. But yes, it is love, a different kind of love.’ Silence. Turns out I was right too, can you imagine the smug smile on my face? ;-)

The most interesting part for me was not the love-triangle that was emerging, it was the inter-specieal dating part. I noticed with interest how she was warmly accepted into the vampire family. Only one of his sisters made a big deal over the fact that she was a different from a species. The rest of the family loved her at once. Something similar happens in the werewolf pack, she is accepted at once. Despite the fact that she’s a total outsider.

Meghna's 1st Twilight Revelation: The Girl’s Choice

As I sat there in the movie theatre with three giggling, gasping and swooning girls next to me, I found myself fascinated with the choice presented on the white screen. Here’s a girl, madly in love with her vampire boyfriend, who at the age of 17 has decided that she wants to be a vampire too. She wants to be with him, always and forever. Maybe I’m a cynic, maybe I’m completely unromantic, but I kept wondering how does she know? How can she be so damn sure?

Part of me envied her. I wish that I could’ve felt that confident about my first love. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that guy with all my heart and soul too, but somehow I was never able to say ‘I want to be with him forever’. I did feel as if I’d love him forever, but I couldn’t make the choice she makes. I couldn’t have changed myself for him. I turned to my young girlfriends for clarification. I asked the simple question of ‘Could you make the choice she’s making?’ They started nodding their heads fanatically. 

Nidhi Chanani's artwork

As you may have noticed, we have finally chosen our first profile picture! This picture that we are using is created by Nidhi Chanani. We first saw her work on www.gorigirl.com and fell in love with it immediately! Nidhi creates wonderful moments in love in her images which are extremely inspiring for us who are thinking and writing about love. Nidhi has been kind enough to allow us to use her artwork once in a while, so be on the look out for stories and blogs inspired by her artwork! If you want to see more of her work, you can go to 
http://www.e-nidhi.com/.


Thanks again Nidhi!

"Surprises" by Nidhi Chanani, retrieved from http://www.e-nidhi.com/

Meghna was dragged to Twilight and felt haunted afterwards...

A few weeks ago, my twelve-year-old cousin, Priya, approached me with an “urgent request”. She fairly begged me to take her to the Twilight-marathon at the movie theatre. The what??

“Twilight-marathon! They’re showing all the Twilight movies up till Breaking Dawn!” Breaking what?? A half-hour explanation of the Twilight series followed, complete with in-depth analysis on vampires, werewolves, humans and love. The last part caught my attention. Is it a love story? Interesting. Still, why would I go?

“Please Meghna, please will you take me? No one else will take me…” Her big, bright, brown, begging eyes were irresistible and she knew this, of course.

“It can be an early birthday present!” Her birthday is in July… Anyway, I caved. She jumped up in the air and started calling her best friends, who had to come with her. It began to occur to me that my role in this was part babysitter, part chauffeur, part…I dunno… cool, older cousin?

So, on a sunny but cold day me and Priya, picked up Ashley and Christina (the best friends) and headed for an 11 hour-show of teenage/vampire/werewolf love drama. I didn’t know anything about Twilight, which according to Priya was actually “perfect because I would see all the movies in a row!” Perfection indeed. On the way, the girls kept giggling over Edward’s hair (that’s the vampire) and Jacob’s six-pack (that’s the werewolf). When I heard this I nearly hit a tree, how old were they again?

About twelve hours later I was dazzled. Not by the vampire, not by the werewolf, but by the thoughts, reflections and discussions with the girls the movies provoked. There’s inter-racial dating, or should I say inter-specieal (I know that’s not a word :p) dating, there’s loving two guys at the same time, there’s holding on to lost love, there’s changing yourself for love, there’s dying out of love….the list is endless!! I felt haunted afterwards, still feel that way. Maybe that’s the supernatural element? Anyway, the coming days I will explain all that these movies revealed to me about love, about myself and a little bit about my three young girlfriends. I hope you will enjoy it!

'Playing the field. Right… how does that work exactly?' by Meghna

When I was a little girl, I always thought that when I grow up I would meet a man one day. A man who would take my breath away just by looking into my eyes. And in precisely that moment, I’d know he was mine. My guy forever.

As I actually grew up I began to realize that things were a bit more complicated in real life. I’d locked eyes with countless guys and never felt that he was my guy. To be honest, now, in my twenties, I wish (but know that’s never gonna happen) that a guy would pop up in front of me with the words “I’m your guy” stamped on his forehead. Wouldn’t save me a whole lot of trouble and trying?!

A friend sort of talked me into dating, you know, playing the field. I really hate that expression. I mean, playing? Come on, doesn’t that create the impression that you’re playing people? Like toying with their emotions? I don’t want to toy with anyone’s emotions. I made this clear to my friend.

‘No, it’s not like that’ she said. ‘It’s like…shopping!’ I believe I raised my eyebrows at that point.

‘Yes!’ she shouted excitedly. ‘Shopping! You know, when you see a dress you like you want to try it on, right? Make sure it looks as good on you as it does on the rack. You want to be sure that it makes your body look good too. That your hips are not bigger, or your boobs smaller, all that stuff. On top of that, you want to be certain that the fabric will not irritate your skin and that you can afford to buy it and feel good in it.’

‘Okay, I get your point. Where does love fit in?’ I asked.

‘Consider finding love, finding the perfect little black dress that you’re gonna wear for ages. You’re lucky dress. You want to make sure that this guy is as nice as he seems, that you can live with his flaws, that you can talk to him and that you feel good with him etc. In short, that you can grow old with him. To find out, you start dating. If, while dating you discover he’s not right for you, you stop dating and wait for the next guy to date.’