Almost everyone I know knows that I am a huge drama addict. I download a lot of tv series and pile them up for the days where I feel like doing nothing, and just veging out on mindless drama. Besides the numerous korean dramas, there's also desperate housewives, prison break, house and grey's anatomy.
Amongst all these, I've noticed a central theme - each of the things I watch reminds me of the frailty of life, and the relationships within. There's the tear jerking korean dramas, the crazy antics of neighbourly relations is desperate housewives, self sacrifice of brotherly love in prison break, and the miracle of medicine in house and grey's anatomy.
And what does tv have to do with real life? Everything it seems - My friend was telling me about how someone at his workplace had a heart attack on the weekends and was in ICU. My workmate has been keeping a constant vigil at her grandfather's hospital bed waiting for the moment he passes through. And my director has a child who is 2 months premature, and has not been taken home in 6 months or even felt the touch of his mother's hand.
So in times where season finales of tv dramas are filled with sadness and loss, and where life deals you the same parallels, I'm grateful for the amazing run I've had in the past 6 months and grateful for the life and the people and things that I've been given...
Hopefully you are too ;)