Bewildered:
I was recently listening to a playlist on 8tracks dedicated to one of my favorite characters, Sirius Black. One of the songs used struck a chord with me, I guess. Suddenly I felt this sense of overwhelming sadness, of sympathy, the cooing, motherly "my poor baby" kind.
And now I wonder, why is it so easy to get attached to fictional characters. In a world where we find it so easy to intentionally hurt people, how do we manage to adopt fictional entities born of a stranger's mind? Moreover, why do we associate so many feelings and emotions to non-existent entities. What makes us fall in love with characters so easily when we are terrified of falling in love with reality?
I was recently listening to a playlist on 8tracks dedicated to one of my favorite characters, Sirius Black. One of the songs used struck a chord with me, I guess. Suddenly I felt this sense of overwhelming sadness, of sympathy, the cooing, motherly "my poor baby" kind.
And now I wonder, why is it so easy to get attached to fictional characters. In a world where we find it so easy to intentionally hurt people, how do we manage to adopt fictional entities born of a stranger's mind? Moreover, why do we associate so many feelings and emotions to non-existent entities. What makes us fall in love with characters so easily when we are terrified of falling in love with reality?
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