In my unsolicited opinion, there's a difference between empathy and boundary. Boundary is obviously incredibly important to maintain - that which is real and that which is not real. Empathy, though, is human. When we watch movies or read books, we often find ourselves feeling empathy for the characters. Sometimes the warm fuzzies that a pair who are being romantic are feeling are easy for us to sit and smile about and feel a sense of our own warmth over, just in the same way that we can react as an audience by our own tears during a time of sorrow for the characters in the movie or book, and we can gasp in surprise alongside them, etc, etc.
But that's where the boundary comes in. It's normal to feel alongside your characters, but the line between the fiction and the empathy reaction, versus "these are my actual feelings", needs to be remembered.
But that's where the boundary comes in. It's normal to feel alongside your characters, but the line between the fiction and the empathy reaction, versus "these are my actual feelings", needs to be remembered.
Lydia Lightfoot ~ The Reliquarian's Guild «Relic» ~ Lavender Beds, Ward 12, #41
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