What is it about those idol dramas about youngsters who find love that has teenagers hooked on them? Probably the fact that they can identify with what the characters are thinking and feeling.
What, then, is their attraction for a woman who can only look back on her teenage years with nostalgia? Longing for her lost youth? Perhaps. I must admit I do feel a tinge of envy when I see the characters going through experiences that I have not, and some measure of regret that I would never have the chance to - one is after all, only young once. So maybe you could say I'm hoping to relive my youth vicariously through these characters.
It's funny how when you're young, you're always hoping to grow up, so that you can think and act more maturely and avoid making stupid decisions.
Yet when one is at the age where one feels actually qualified to give advice, given the benefit of hindsight, you look back on the follies of youth not with embarrassment, but with a sense of gratitude, thankful that you had those experiences which prove that you were young once too, that you did not miss out on those angsty years.
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