I’ve always had big passions.

As a kid it was Jurassic Park. In my twenties, Charlie Chaplin. In my thirties, Butte, Montana.

I find something I like and I dig in. Like, really dig in.

(some might call it "obsession" but I prefer "passion"😄) 

My latest passion is Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

I’ve listened to the audiobook probably 100 times since September--it’s seriously that good. 

But now the movie's come out and apparently I have a new game to play: 

Avoid all mention, images, commercials, trailers, and news articles about the movie until i see it.

I was ordering politely asking my family, who will see it before I do, not talk to me until after i’ve seen it.

But whyyyy? they all wanted to know. 

i had no good answer.

I think I just really (like really, really) like living in a story.

When I find a story I love, I just want to crawl inside and live there for a while.

I don’t want to know what the theme is, or what the author was doing when he chose this over that, or how the movie was made.

I just want to live in the story, and for the story to be all that i need.

Because the best stories often are.

Is that weird?

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