As the majority of you know, I am a complete loser...wait, no, that's not what I meant at all...what I meant to say was "I am a fan of musicals to the point of embarrassment of my peers and family members". There, much better. And as a fan of musicals, I have an unhealthy obsession with the Pulitzer Prize winning show, RENT...like more unhealthy than Natalie Portman in Black Swan. After standing in line for an hour with my dad because we serendipitously stumbled across the opening night of RENT playing at Elon University in North Carolina, I realized that I might not have a problem after all! An obsession with a great work of art or a powerful mantra holds much less "creepy stalker fixation" than say...stalking someone. RENT, a multiple Tony Award winning show and the ninth-longest running show on Broadway, contains many life-affirmations (and allusions to Pucini's La Boheme) that seem perfectly natural to strive for: "Live each moment as my last", "Measure in love", and "La Vie Boheme". A break from materialism in favor of love everlasting; I find it hard to believe that someone would argue against that, so is it wrong to have an infatuation with something not commonly accepted, even if underneath the shell of nonconformity a basic truth lies?
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