Legos.

So I never knew how strong exactly my passion for Lego sets was until yesterday I was talking to my roommate and we mentioned Legos and suddenly I could not stop talking about them. We realized that we both had an equal obsession with Lego sets and realized that it is actually such a freaking expensive hobby. Like why a couple plastic bricks cost hundreds of dollars I will never understand. Every Christmas all of my guy cousins and my younger brother would get Legos as their gift where on the other hand, me and the only other girl cousin I have would always end up with some sparkly nail polish that smelled like rat poison or some creepy doll set. Well anyways, I figured if I would never receive a Lego set I would just build the sets that my cousins received and they collectively had  received SO many. I would go over to their house during the holidays when I visited and ask if I could build a set but they would always make up some type of excuse or laugh at me and brush it off as a joke. BUT THIS CHRISTMAS, let me TELL you I was heated. I asked my cousin if I could build a set for the 4th year in a row and he tells me he has sold every single one of them on EBay. The audacity. I was heartbroken. But one day I am sitting on the ground at my other cousin's house and out of nowhere I see a LEGO SET laying on the ground. It's not anything extraordinary, not like the architectural sets I have always wanted but it was a Technic race car set. But at this point anything is something right? So I literally yell "WHo's is ThiS?" and my 10 year old cousin comes running in and he's like "Oh. That's mine, it's ugly." Right?? So I asked him if I could build it with way too much excitement and he looks at me like I have absolutely lost it and he says "I mean yes? I don't want it..." I don't waste a second. I start building the set immediately and almost instantly the rest of my cousins start crowding around me asking to help and it becomes a turf war. My mom comes up to me yelling and asking why I am building my 10 year old cousin's Lego set and I had to go through the explanation that I had received his prior approval.  I fought years for this Lego set and I had never felt more accomplished when I finished. I will never understand my love for Legos and honestly neither will anyone else but it truly is so entertaining. I think I eventually realized that a lot of the reason that I enjoy building puzzles is because it is a much cheaper alternative to building Lego sets, which isn't even much of a replacement to be honest because it's so different. Something about activities that I can concentrate and work on for extended periods of time without even realizing time is passing by is something I enjoy. You can listen to music, eat snacks, pretty much do anything you want to when you're working on a puzzle or a Lego set. But honestly I won't even try to defend or justify my passion for Legos I think I've just been like this my entire life. (hahaha this is so dramatic whoops)


Also please ignore my email. I made it when I was 12 and I really thought I was onto something...