Friday 10 September, 2004

Being a fan

Henri writes (in Finnish) about being a fan. This is a subject very close to my heart, in fact you could say I'm a fan of being a fan. Getting excited about different things is a spice of life - I've always been a fan of something and those things have always been changing throughout my life.

Probably most of all, I'm a sci-fi fan. If it's sci-fi, I find it interesting, and it's easy to get excited about it - I was first introduced to sci-fi by my mom who gave me some Isaac Asimov books to read. Ever since that there was no turning back - first Asimov, then Clarke, Dick, Star Trek, Butler, Red Dwarf, Banks, Farscape, Stargate, Firefly, Morgan... It's something that even after twenty years or so always gets my attention.

There are secondary subjects I'm fan of, too. As you know, I'm a big fan of American and Mexican pro-wrestling, I'm a fan of reading and books, especially detective and crime novels, and I'm a fan of cooking and recepies. To a lesser degree I'm also a fan of games and the fantasy genre, and of comics and movies and music, of animals and nature, and of gadgets and computers and technology.

But the best thing about fandom is that it's a shared pleasure. It's something you share with your friends, you discuss and argue about, it gets you passionate and in it's extreme forms it gets you a bit a bit hysterical and slighly mad - but the more you feel, the more it gives back to you. One of the nicest things about life is to sit down with someone and be enthusiastic and analyse and ponder and discuss your subject to death. All people do this to a degree, and if they're lucky they surround temselves with people who feel similary about the same things. (I don't understand some things some other people get excited about like football or ice hockey or stamps or train spotting - but I believe that as long as people get excited about something they have hope.)

(Note that I don't feel I can say I'm a yoga fan - I find that it is something more... spiritual. Although it's something I get very exited about, it's not a sharing thing - it's a personal thing.)

Posted by kolibri at 10 September 11:47, 2004
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# 1 - Mikki (on September 12, 2004 11:05 AM):

If there's one thing about my friends that always alienates me, it's that all-encompassing ability to put the "fan" in "fanatic".

Then again, they have a lot more fun than I ever do, so I guess that shows how much I know.


# 2 - kolibri (on September 13, 2004 08:09 AM):

Yep, I pretty much thought you would say that :)


# 3 - Chu (on September 16, 2004 10:03 AM):

I definitely consider myself a fun-atic. Or should that be fun-addict? :)


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