The title is a line from a song by Fall Out Boy. Look them up, you might just thank me later, and if not, well, that's your loss my friend.
Let's talk about Beginnings, Ends, and Infatuations in the middle.
Beginnings: Birth, the cover of a book, the opening credits of a movie, on your mark, get set, go. The Beginning is where you sit in anticipation of what is to come. You've got no foreknowledge of what might come, only plans, hopes, wishes, dreams. The Beginning is where you get to pretend you know how things will end, it's where you get to believe you've got it all figured out. The Beginning is where your delusions end however.
Ends: Death, The End, the copyright laws, "and the winner is", goodbye. The endings are where you look back, having all the information you gained over the course of time, and realize how incredibly wrong you were back at your Beginning. Nothing worked out the way you planned, hoped, wished, or dreamed. In the End you're left with whatever you've managed to salvage, whatever glimmer of good you've managed to pull out of the crap you've just witnessed. The End is where you finally grasp the full appreciation of reality.
The Infatuation: Twilight, Sword of Truth series, music, love. The Infatuation is what you spend all your time on between the Beginning and the End. It's where you screw everything up, or it gets screwed up for you. Some infatuations last minutes, some last days, some last for the duration. The length of time doesn't really matter, what matters is how you work on things to make them salvageable in the End.
I realize this may sound morbid, negative, depressing, hopeless even, but it really isn't; it's just the way things are. You have to pick around in the jumbled mess at the End to see what's left from the Beginning that's still valuable and decent. My current infatuation is the Twilight movie, which some of you have no doubt heard about at the very least. It's based off the first of a series by Stephenie Meyer; they were an infatuation once upon a time. You should all read the books, they are somewhat young reader, but they are nonetheless amazing.
Happy early Thanksgiving.