I’m positive every single person has experienced the deep empty feeling after they’ve finished watching an entire television series or completed a book. I know I’ve experienced this more times than I can count, and yet I’m never prepared for it. The feeling always hits me with the same intensity that leaves me in shambles for weeks.

Eventually, the feeling fades as life continues forward and newer forms of entertainment emerge, but what I really want to address is the feelings that flourish when you rewatch or reread a series after leaving it behind so long ago.

I’m currently in the process of re-watching the HBO series "True Blood," which aired its final episode back in August of 2014. Although I remember quite vividly the overall plot and major events from the series, I’ve noticed that the minor details and affairs are quite fuzzy and not as well retained. Strangely, even though I know how everything pans out, I can’t help but feel that spark of excitement or hum of anxiety when drama begins to unfold around the characters of the show. Don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled at the prospect of experiencing something again, but with the emotions of when I first experienced it.

However, I realize that while I do experience some of the anterior feelings whilst watching this show, I also sometimes have a hard time rewatching the entirety of an episode or season without fast forwarding through dull parts or skipping episodes entirely. I blame the newly lit flame of anticipation that desires so wantonly to “get to the good parts” and discard all the fluff. More than anything, I experience this the most when re-reading books. For example, about three weeks back, I had picked up my copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone." I distinctly remember reading the first 16 pages before skipping wildly to the better half of the first part of the book –– Harry’s sorting into Gryffindor. After wholeheartedly singing an out-of-tune version of the Sorting Hat’s song then grinning maniacally into the pages of the new few chapters, I had picked up "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" before my fingers even rustled the ending pages of the first installment of the series.

What better cure would there be for my lack of focus and anxiousness other than to be able to experience the "Harry Potter" series again as if it were my first time?

I guess that would be one of my biggest desires. Like in "An Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind," I would love to have an experience erased from my memory just so I can experience it for the first time again and again and relish the raw and extraordinary feelings endlessly. Can you imagine it? Imagine being able to relive the exact feelings from your most happiest memories. The notion is deliciously tempting –– for me at least.

As I know begin to venture into the folds of "True Blood"’s second season, I embrace the slowly budding feeling of complete submersion into the show as if I didn’t already know what happens. I guess the trick is to not think of end, but rather to stay in the moment. Perhaps a part of me wishes to fill the “showhole” –– so graciously termed from Amazon Prime to describe the emptiness felt after you finish your favorite TV show or online series and have nothing else to watch –– that the season six finale of "Game of Thrones" left me in while another part of me wanted to see if there was anyone else who can relate to the entourage of emotions I seem to be subjecting myself to.

Source: Amazon Prime

Funny enough, my HBO Go account has taken to warning me that I have been binge-watching television series for three days now and they’re starting to get a little worried. Worried, yet they still continue to stream the next episode without my having to click a button. How worried can they be, right?