I'm one of those teenage girls that becomes way too emotionally invested in fictional things. I think in many ways this is a defensive mechanism to project emotions that I don't want to focus on in real life and blame a fictional situation for feeling them.
But I have two problems.
I hate sharing books and TV shows because, no matter how large or small the following, I feel like they're mine and the way that I see them is also purely mine and I don't want to share my experience with anyone else.
But then those times that I do share things and my friends say that they're stupid or show literally no interest in them--not even fake interest--really breaks my heart. Many times, these characters are, as cheesy as it sounds, my heroes and I look to them for strength and they help me and inspire me and then people just say that they're not important because they're not real or whatever. And what's super annoying is I always show interest in friend's media of choice, whether or not I watch it.
Is it so much to ask for those things to be reciprocated?
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