Reflection

Isn't fiction just the kind of reality we, in a way, want to experience? I mean, there's no need to say that people don't want to get involved in too risky situations in real life, as well as in heartbreaking love stories of their own, and so on. But there's this feeling that fiction spreads out, the kind of feeling that gets people to live up in there minds, and not down on the Earth. The kind of feeling that makes people want to be, not only theirselves, but something else.

Isn't, then, fiction the reflection of our deepest desires and fears? Isn't it the most descriptive illustration of the human need of invention? Well, I think it is. And being more specific, I believe that series are the most obvious way to explain so. There's literature as well, but it really doesn't get to so many people nowadays, as it used to before.

Series have this way of keeping us hooked up, needing to know what comes next. And they keep this realistic rhythm that gets just so similar to our own lives, that the fiction we were creating in our minds becomes true in just a few episodes. We may go through one episode per day, as if it was the proper ending, the one we needed. And they don't even need to be too dramatic, just a bit realistic - I've always loved Friends and The Simpsons. But I've also learned about a different kind of series, as Death Note.

I just love the way they happen to mean so much for people, seen in the way they affect their feelings. I truly struggled watching Thirteen Reasons Why. And I'm quite sure I wasn't the only one.

- María Brotóns