2023-06-20 23:46:22
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” they asked me, and as a teenager my options alternated between a doctor, an architect or a lawyer, depending on when they asked me.
I advocated because it was what many told me I should study. “You would be a good lawyer”, analyzed the adults in various situations of my daily life. When one is young and confused by a sea of possibilities, the security of the other can be influential, even if it was not a real option for a long time.
My passion for design and drawing, on the other hand, is an inheritance from my dad that I still have. Dedicating myself to a career that would allow me to perfect myself in that field was a choice that felt as logical as it was natural. But medicine competed very closely, and within medicine, particularly forensics.
At that time I was a declared fan (I still am) of series like Medical Detectives, CSI and Law and order. With the passing of the chapters, these fictions aroused an interest that went beyond the screen: one day I projected myself wearing an ambo, performing autopsies in a sterile environment, and I loved the idea.
I was never impressionable, natural science used to be my forte, and the challenge of solving mysteries has an appeal in itself. He had seen so many episodes of these series that he even fantasized about having a comparative advantage over the rest of the students, as if the hours in front of the television counted as professional practices. But the social aspect was stronger and when I got to know the “little school” of Social Communication (today the Faculty), option D prevailed over the other three.
Despite not having made forensic medicine my job opportunity, in terms of fiction, crime investigations will always be my favorites. Seeing detectives, police officers and doctors in “action” taking samples, analyzing evidence and drawing conclusions does not lose its appeal.
Law and Order or CSI are one of those series that, no matter if you’re at home or on vacation in another country, if you turn on the TV and surf the channels for a few minutes, you’ll surely come across one of its episodes.
CSI stopped broadcasting in 2015 but it is still on the small screen like other titles, such as Criminal Minds, which came out later but marked an era. And there are also fictions like Law and Order that recently aired its 24th season, and plans to continue. The series starring Mariska Hargitay in the role of detective Olivia Benson is one of the longest running on television and this is a symptom. The genre appeals to me, and to a large part of the world’s population.
Much was theorized about the reason why it arouses so much interest. Some speak of morbidity and irrepressible curiosity, while others adhere to the theory of an instinctive need to discover who, what, when, where and why criminals act in a certain way in order to know how to act in case of being in danger. I don’t know, maybe it’s a conjunction of all that, but if there are criminal investigations, you have my attention.
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