It floods you in the moment.

You know when you're on vacation somewhere warm by the water and you spend the whole day out in the sun? Swimming and playing games, taking ill-advised naps and reading in the sun, and having the basics of a sandwich with chips as your lunch. Then in early afternoon as it starts to get unbearable, you go back inside to take a cold shower and a power nap before rejoin...

Never meet you idol. But if you do...make sure you take full advantage of the opportunity.

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I thought I was the luckiest girl alive when I found out that my college film project had won me the opportunity to not only attend the premiere of In Dark Times, the most highly anticipated movie of the year, but also meet and sit with Charles Patrick, the star and a lifelong hero of mine.

Charles ...