Chez Claudia

 We need to talk about how some stans or “super fans” need to re-think their life choices. I was going through Tik Tok the other day, and I saw a video of a girl saying that she saw on X (formerly Twitter) a Lando Norris fan replying to a Charlie Kirk news post about his death with a repost saying “Oscar Piastri next btw” I was speechless when I saw this. As per my perspective, this type of behavior translates a lack of awareness of reality and what this basically says to me is: this person has zero sense of what is real and what is not. They live a “parassocial reality”, where in their heads, Oscar Piastri is so hated by them that he deserves to die. This, of course if you don’t follow F1, goes in hand with the fact that Oscar Piastri besides being a teammate to Lando Norris, is also a direct rival for the World Championship. This, in their heads serves as a valid response to an “enemy” of their “Stan” (enemy between quotations as we are fully aware both Norris and Piastri don’t h...

The hardest part of understanding that you gave too much importance to someone that did not deserve it, is the reality check of that fact in your mind. Mind me to explain this paragraph to you. Imagine rooting for someone, defending them, praise them and let them know that they have the potential to be their very best, only for them to not even share with you something when you believed the whole time you both had some sort of friendship. This happened to me this week and let me tell you: it was NOT fun. After spending the last few years being their biggest supporter, turns out I am not worthy of receiving the news from their own mouth. And how do you manage that? Well, good question. In this specific case, I was already detaching myself from this person. Why? Somehow I was seeing this façade of a not-so-reliable person. But this latest was the last nail in the coffin, so to speak. So I grieved the person I believed I knew and above everything else, I made myself understand that the su...