A couple of nights ago, as I was watching T.V., I came to the profound revelation that I am truly pathetic. I realized that I had gotten excited about getting to come home and spend a couple of hours in front a screen where I would allow myself to get emotionally invested in the lives of several fictional characters, living in a fictional world, while working through fictional circumstances. It really is sad. My wife and I's two favorite shows are Lost and Heroes and the more I think about it, the more ridiculous it becomes. At that moment, I realized that I truly care about people that don't even exist and I invest a significant part of my time keeping up with their fictional lives. How sad is that!
It reminds me of another revelation I had several years ago when the show Friends went off the air. I felt like I had lost some of my closest friends when that show went off the air. It was so hard to say goodbye to Joey and Ross and Rachel and Chandler and Monica and Phoebe (and I can't believe I can still so easily reel off all of these fictional character's names). It made me realize how sad it was that I could actually experience grief over a bunch of people that didn't even exist.
It truly is sad....very sad indeed.
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I also felt like I knew the "Friends" characters better than most of the real people in my life...that means it was a well written show! It is sad that it's easier for most of us in our culture to build relationships with fictional people than with our neighbors. Not sure I have a solution for that, but I agree that it's a bad sign!
...Found your blog through the Shameless Saturday post on Stuff Christians Like. Keep writing!
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