Stranger Things: My Life

Will Byers fell in love with his best friend Mike Wheeler.

Mike Wheeler was not in love with him back.

Mike Wheeler fell in love with a new girl with psionic abilities

Whose name was the number Eleven

Who was so traumatized and still pushed on

And she seemed so cool

So unique

So unreachable

I guess he just couldn't resist.

Nancy Wheeler told her boyfriend Steve Harrington that she didn't love him

While drunk at a party.

They acted like they loved each other for an entire season

Because he really did love her

More than she loved him

She wanted to love him though

And she thought she did

But the truth came out

And they began to fall apart.

Once that piece of the puzzle is lost under the couch

The rest starts to lose its purpose.

Why bother trying to put it back together?

Jonathan Byers got his happy ending

After episode after episode of waiting for it.

The girl he loved 

Loved him back.

Steve's heart was broken in the process

Because Jonathan's girl was Nancy Wheeler

And Jonathan deserved some happiness, yes.

And Steve was a jerk, yes.

Steve was a typical teenage guy

An overprotective boyfriend

A neglected son

But does anyone come back from something like that?

What if you loved someone so much

And they told you they loved you back

And you let yourself believe it?

What if you let yourself fall so far in love

They shattered it with one word at a party

And you were ruined forever

All your perfect futures

Picket fences and a glorious wedding and beautiful children

Gone

What if you let yourself trust someone and love someone

And then you hated them so much

Hated yourself for feeling that way?

What if you were the Steve and someone else was the Nancy

And you were so broken

And you were so hurt

And the world was a world of pain?

What then?

What happens to you when the only thing keeping you on this earth

Is the person who said you were bull

What happens when your lifeline is gone?

Barbara Holland was Nancy Wheeler's best friend.

Nancy convinced her to come to Steve's party,

And Barb came.

Nancy left her behind while chasing wild teenage wantings and cravings

Upstairs with Steve.

Barb was murdered by a monster in the pool that night

And Nancy was too busy with her boyfriend to notice

Until she was "missing" and everyone began the search

For a girl who could never be found.

Jim Hopper lost his own child

But he still helped a mom on the brink of a complete mental breakdown

Find hers.

He tucked his personal issues

His problems

His life away into a box

So he could help everyone else.

What happens when you lose yourself

Because you've been focusing on everyone else?

What happens if you're Will or Mike

Or Eleven or Nancy

Or Steve or Barbara or Hopper?

What happens when you're a character

And you are all of these things

What happens when your life is a Stranger Things soundtrack?