It’s hard to let go

Yeah. Let it go. But not in a Frozen kind of way.

Over the weekend, I watched in one sitting all of the 6 episodes of Glee I was missing. Before that, a couple of weekends before, I had binge-watched like 8 episodes in a row. Evidently, I’m not as hooked on Glee as I was before. I don’t have the need to watch the episode as soon as it airs.

Friends (who used to watch Glee and don’t anymore) always ask me: “you are still watching that?!?!?!” Yes, I am. Though, honestly. I don’t know why.

So it got me thinking: why is it hard to let go?

The truth is that I’ve invested almost 5 years in this show. I’ve been with this characters through ups and downs. It’s like… they are always there. It’s sort of a routine. Not only the show, but I went to see the movie (3 times) and I have every song on my iPod. The show is like a fix item in my life.

But one has to learn how to let go when enough is enough.

For me Glee is like a relationship that ran out of love. You don’t hate each other, there’s no other people involved (ok, maybe a couple of new shows are consuming most of my time, but still…), you haven’t done anything serious. You just… don’ love each other like you did way back in the beginning. The magic is gone. But you don’t want to end it. You are used to the other person (or show, in this case), there’s a routine, safety in the fact that you know each other. You care for it, but you don’t love it anymore.

I know. It’s hard to let go. Often through the last season I thought of just stopping altogether. No one was forcing me to watch it. So I could go on weeks without watching a single episode. And then, out of the blue, I felt guilty and made myself watch all the episodes I hadn’t seen. And I made it to the season finale. But enough is enough. I doubt I’ll be watching the next season.

Which sucks, because it’s the last season ever. I should see things through and see how the characters end up. But the truth is I would be making myself watch it. It would be forced, out of guilt. Not because I wanted to or found pleasure in it. So enough is enough.

I’m sure I’m not alone in this. A lot of us just keep watching shows until they are cancelled or until the end, just because we are used to them. They are part of our weekly routine. And, deep down, we do care about the characters. So we want to know what happens in their lives. But we don’t have deep connection to the show as we used to.

So, Glee is the show I can’t stop watching even though I want to. Which one is/was yours???