I have once again been neglecting my blog. This always seems to happen. And it isn't that I don't feel like I have anything to say, it's just that I usually find other means of expressing it or if it is something on my mind and I wait too long, I feel silly blogging about it. But this time, I have something that has just been absolutely consuming my mind: the last Harry Potter movie and more particularly the emotions that are coming along with it.
The thing that specifically triggered this blog today was a blog entry I made in October of 2007 on (wait for it) MySpace. It was entitled "Summer of Potter, college, the adventures that could have been, and the adventures that will be." I was very much unaware of how to concise with my words back then. But in it I talked basically about summer of 2007 and all the awesome things that were going on in the Harry Potter fandom and how that I missed out on all of it. I made a promise to myself that I would not miss out on any more fandom events like the various Cons and wizard rock shows and just generally interacting more with people in the fandom.
But almost four years later, I look back and I did not keep that promise to myself. LeakyCon is this summer and I am not going. I have a feeling that it is going to shoot to the top of my list of fandom events that I regret missing out on. And now, I sit here thinking back on all the things I missed, the experiences I could have had, the fun that I am going to miss out on by not going to LeakyCon, and most of all I am thinking, with dread, that the fandom will begin to die off and that there will not been many more events in the future.
This is what I have been fearing the most and I think it is the reason why I have been feeling so nostalgic about it because in the future there will not even be any more opportunities to create these sort of memories. Then again, can I really call it nostalgia if I never actually had those experiences?
Now I know that everyone keeps saying that this is never going to end and that there are plenty of other crazed fandoms that have continued on long after the supposed end of their era. But it is just what I am afraid of. I hate that I am feeling so negative about this and mostly it is because I never got to experience so many things in the fandom and now I just feel like it is going to slip away.
My hope is that the Harry Potter fandom will continue on. There are still so many great things like the Wizard World of Harry Potter and Pottermore and of course Jo pulling at our hearts saying there is going to be another Harry Potter book. I hope that these things keep the fandom alive and if they do, this time there will be no more "adventures that could have been" there will only be fandom adventures that happened and that were absolutely amazing experiences.
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