End All Obsession

When does the love of something become an obsession? Honestly, I'm not sure, but I'll let you be the judge. My mom will tell anyone who will listen that I'm constantly getting obsessed all the time. And every time it's with someone, or something, new. Apparently I don't know how to keep focus on an obsession long enough for it to last too long. Or at least that's what I've heard, from the people who know me the best.

So, if that's the case: That I become so hopelessly obsessed with someone, or something, that I loose all sense of reality, but than become obsessed with something new just as quickly then how long could one obsession of mine possibly last. A year or two at the most?

That's probably fairly standard for a normal obsession in the world of ME. But what about that one thing that has been always in the background of my consciousness for honestly as long as I can remember? Or 13 years, which is half of my damn life? What is that one thing that has spanned my life time of smaller, and sometimes forgotten, obsessions? Followed me through middle school, high school, and into my now "adult" life? It's Bowling for Soup of course.




Bowling for Soup, BFS, is my favorite band of all time. As I said above I have been listening to them for half of my life. Bowling for Soup is not just an obsession, they are the obsession to end all obsessions. Here are a few things that point to this:

- My first and only tattoo, BFS. Here is a photo of the tattoo, and the response BFS's lead singer, Jaret Reddick, sent me on Twitter.




- I have every single one of their albums. Including those of Jaret's side projects People on Vacation and Jarinus.

- I have at least a dozen different BFS shirts, and/or hoodies.

- I have the shirt that Jaret was wearing in their music video "Almost."
- My brother, Ricci, his girlfriend, Brittany, and I made a fan-made video for the Jarinus song "Farting at Staples", here's the link. Check it out.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sA9XEFsmJgs


- The music video for BFS's new song "Real", that I was just in. Here is a picture of me and the other girls in the video:




These are just a few of the things that come to mind when I think of the reasons why I'm more than just obsessed with BFS. Then there is the more obvious reason. What is that you may be asking yourself? Because it may only be plainly obvious to me.

For the past 13 years I have the biggest crush on Jaret Reddick, lead singer of BFS. Being an "adult" at 26 doesn't not change my crush status. Who says you have to be a teenager to legitimately have a crush. And this goes way beyond a celebrity crush. I think once it hit a decade it moved beyond that, and became something new.




Of course as everyone knows, since you are sitting here reading this, I am a writer. I mostly write fictional stories, but I have been trying to keep up on these blog posts which are obviously not fictional (unless otherwise stated, then they are). Jaret was, and still is, the inspiration behind one of my most well known characters. When I say well known this is among my family and those friends that have read my work. The previous post I posted a short scene involving this character, if you would like to scroll down and check it out :)

These are just the basic things that show my absolute, complete, love and devotion to the band who has been making music for 19 years, and has had me for a fan for 13.





Marcus lives!!! (If you know me well enough, you should understand this comment :) )

TNT,
Words by Ali

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