It’s been less than a year since I was introduced to you, but we have already spent so much quality together. In retrospect, I’ve probably spent more hours with you than with other humans, but who’s counting, right? Anyways, I’ve learned much more from you in 10 months than from other people in years. Maybe I should spend more time honing my social skills rather than cuddling my laptop, eating M&Ms and excessively watching you, wouldn’t you agree? Yeah, me either.
I remember the dark ages, aka the 18 years of my life I did not know you. A friend of mine loved you, and I thought it ridiculous (my apologies). He spoke of Sam and Dean, and how their monster hunting adventures had distracted him from his 9 a.m. essay deadline, something I now have to admit to be guilty of. I reprimanded him and told him he was stupid. There was no way a TV show could ever be so important and time consuming to me. Boy, was I wrong.
Flash forward to the present, and now, my friends can’t understand my love for you. Ironic, isn’t it? I started watching you on a rainy September night while my roommate was who knows where. I don’t know why, out of all the television shows out there, I chose you, but I’m more than glad that I did. I watched your pilot episode, and it was love at first sight (Jensen Ackles’s flawless face might have had something to do with that). You terrified me and made me believe changelings, ghosts, werewolves, and Bloody Mary were chasing me, but I was hooked. Thanks for making me neglect days of homework, by the way.
In all seriousness, I want to thank you from the bottom of my Winchester obsessed heart. I am aware that you are fictional, but the lessons you have taught me and the community you have helped me build are anything but. First, through 11 seasons of heartbreak and man tears, you taught me that although messed up and dysfunctional at times, family is your family will come through. Speaking of family, you also taught me that family, in the words of Bobby Singer, “don’t end in blood.” There is the family that you are born into, and the family that you get to pick, and both are equally important, sometimes the latter more so. Second, thank you for keeping me sane during the schoolyear, giving me incentives, and allowing me to procrastinate, even if I abused that a little too much. Seriously, without our nightly and, let’s be honest, daily, dates, I would have probably ran screaming down Bascom Hill. Lastly, but certainly not least, thank you for providing the platform for a beautiful friendship and allowing me to bond with one of my favorite people on this planet.
"Supernatural," I can’t imagine life without you, even if you are slowly ruining my bank account (merchandise is necessary) and emotionally draining me.
Love,
Nashali
