(I really really really want to go to another one, but I don't know when she'll ever be in the area again. Sad.)
I also realized that I haven't watched a single episode of Grey's Anatomy since the season premiere. I was such a Grey's junkie until I got here. But you know, it's really funny how sometimes you change your tastes depending on whom you're around. But you try to make it not-obvious because it would suck for the person/people to know that you're being different around them/because of them. And honestly, it's not like you're trying to do that to impress the person; your interests just shift.
And then when you leave that person behind, and you adapt to a new situation with new people, you wonder if those interests you had taken on before were ever really yours to begin with.
The interesting thing is, so many significant parts of my life were so dependent on that one show. The music I came to listen to (although I definitely started listening to Ingrid before I started watching Grey's), the style of writing I eventually came to settle upon, the relationships I expected, my decision to not become a doctor (okay, maybe this wasn't all that influenced by it, but I think realizing that I liked the idea of writing the show better than experiencing the show had a slight subconscious influence.)
And now that I've stopped, it's not like I'm suddenly dropping those things; these changes will stay with me forever, probably. But it's just funny. I almost miss being so absorbed in it.
But I wonder...what obsession will be next?
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"And then when you leave that person behind, and you adapt to a new situation with new people, you wonder if those interests you had taken on before were ever really yours to begin with."
i don't think we'll ever know if they're ours to begin with, if we had the inklings of gravitating towards those things... but i think the interests we take on become ours. until we leave them, of course.
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