#too deep thoughts

[starswhogaze]

Too deep thoughts keeping me from sleeping.....

People use backstory and all the crap that a character went through (or the lack of crap) to justify a character’s actions no matter what it is. If they murdered, if they said hurtful things, if they stole, no matter what “bad” thing they did, its okay because they “did it because theyre still struggling with emotions from past experiences” or “did it because they had no choice, they had to survive and they did it the best they could” or “they didnt know better, thats how they were raised, its not their fault”...but I wonder how many people, non fictional people in the real world, would appreciate the patience and understanding we show fictional characters? When they do or say something stupid, instead of pushing them away we’re there for them and we remember that “theyre still struggling with emotions from past experiences”...”they did the best they could”...”its not their fault”...

[starswhogaze]

Too deep thoughts part 2

Lots of people show more patience and understanding towards fictional characters than they do towards the real, living, breathing, people around them. Maybe it's because in fiction we usually get a back story, and with the people around us we don't. Because back stories are where the reasons for our actions lie. That's why it's easier to send a stranger to die than someone who's history you know personally. So maybe it's not the lack of understanding thats the problem, but the lack of connection. The mentality of "thats not my problem" and "it doesn't affect me directly so..". When we start thinking in terms of "we are one", "we are family", "we are a community", "we are a body", then even in the small things we start to see as "our problem"...we start to reach out and we start to connect, therefore we begin to understand, and from there we begin to have patience, and love one another with a similar love as that we have for our favourite fictional characters..