How The Vampire Diaries Helped Me Through My Teeange Years:

The vampire diaries helped me while growing up in a way you can’t even begin to imagine, sure I started watching (like all of us did) because of the romance, the action (yes even the love triangle!) but getting into it i had no idea that it would help shape the person i am, yes a show about vampires helped me in more ways than you can imagine, i’ll start explaining how & why it helped me below:

1- Life will give you exactly what you need exactly when you need it.

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The vampire diaries showed me firsthand how now matter how bad life gets the good things eventually find you & help you, for example think about Elena, she lost both her parents at once then she met Stefan who himself was dead inside & like Kevin Williamson said “these two dead souls brought it each other back to life.”

& no Elena finding Stefan doesn’t make up for her parents dying, but the show showed us Elena finding someone who understood her pain & helped her heal & i found it “Epic.”

2- Face your feelings, good or bad

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One of the biggest themes of the series was each character's humanity, we first saw damon without his humanity then stefan & the list goes on & on, but each of these characters eventually had to face their mistakes, their emotions which is what redeemed them in the viewer's eyes, so that showed & taught me how to face my feelings head on, & how facing & understanding my emotions made me stronger.

3- It showed how complex we humans can be

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Yes, i do realize we're talking about vampires here.. okay so think about stefan, damon even caroline! were any of them "always the heroes."? the answer is NO. damon was good once then he wasn't, & stefan was first introduced to us as the hero, the good brother, then as the seasons went on we saw him become somewhat a villain & damon a hero. That made me realize that most of us aren't all good, but aren't all bad. It made understand the true complexity of humanity.

4- Live in the moment

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This show showed me how short life is (even for enteral 100 years old vampires) and to appreciate every moment & take as many risks as you can because everything could be gone tomorrow, this quote from the show's 8th (& final season) sums it up perfectly. "...I told her how important it was to appreciate the moments. because moments are all we have."

5- You can have more than "one true love" in your life

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Think about stefan & elena, they were "it" for each other, then elena fell for damon & suddenly he was her true love, each of these loves served their proposes in her life & they each were exactly what she needed at their time, the show showed how someone can be "the one" at some point, but after a while they might not be. That doesn't mean you won't find another love because you're most likely going to & it's going to be exactly what you need when you need it, "One day you'll met someone new, and you'll fall madly in love, and you'll have moved on without even realizing it."

6- Our actions are what matters

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Our choices, our actions, good or bad are what defines us, even when we make the wrong one, we have to face it, learn from it & live with it.

7- Everything is going to be okay in the end.

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The show was about grieve, love but most of all it was about hope. it showed how you can overcome the hardest of things with time, and the thing that made this show so close & personal to me was the theme of hope, watching the vampire diaries always made me believe that eventually things will work themselves out & that everything would be alright in the end.