Most of the teenagers even quite a many adults follow various TV shows like F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Dawson's Creek, 90210, How I Met Your Mother etc. What is it about this TV series that attract the viewer's to them? Not only the TV series but also various movies on friendship are some of the best sellers ever and so is in the case of books. The name might be different and in some cases the genre (comedy, drama) but what they offer is the same, "an escape".
Be it F.R.I.E.N.D.S a perfect group of friends who maybe not so perfect as an individual but survive relentlessly for 10 years through various situations based on humor and sarcasm.
Or Dawson's Creek a perfect image on how a childhood friendship survives through the most severe scenarios of real life and
relationships, but still wins in the end.
After a research i have come to the following conclusion that in our so called "perfect world" but in actual sense "real world" its hard to find true relations based on friendship and love. What these series do is they lure you to the perfect picture, where you see that a group of people, no matter how mean they might sometimes act to each other or no matter how selfish they might actually are can still remain great friends, by accepting each other's flaws.
But in the real world, the scenario is pretty much in contrast, here people single you out on your flaws and constantly remark on your any mean or selfish behavior in the past. Its not only difficult to survive acting as yourself, its also hard to accept someone with their flaws and harder to accept them as 'perfect'.
But no matter how untrue be the projection, the main trick these series or movies or books for that matter, pull is they create a few fictional characters, whose characteristics you will find similar to that of yours and will start to relate to them in all manners possible. You will create a new imaginary world where you are that character is you and its problems are yours, by relating in this manner you will try to find your own problem's solutions in it, which may or may not be the case.
You become so obsessed by this that you don't want to miss a single event and thus you get addicted to it and try to watch every single episode, read the book etc. But what we don't realize in all this in that we are running away from our own real life problems in this way, looking for an easier solution to it from someone else's point of view which is not even true. If instead of escaping to this imaginary world if we stick to the real one we might nt face the problems, we are seeking the solution to in the first place.
