The only thing that enable us to slip into the the chrysalis of some other soul's grief is that we learned their history and how life carefully seeps into them. We do not feel pure grief of a stranger's vague memory or the whispers of unknown deaths on the streets.
I hope this explains how the scenery manipulates the picture. I hope this explains why your favourite tv show cast the details of characters, elaborate their identity to flash this idea of a person or people throughout the timeline. Because how can we slip into their skin to relate, to be saddened by a scrape of event consequences if not by living the story itself?
For me, it's truly beautiful how the right parts defined can makes us feel that jolt of electric and get our individual soul to find similarity points with a constructed idea of made up—but living— soul. As we cannot be the narrator that sees everything oncoming for each story told. We are the main character of an obscure play.
How do I say this?
We are the actor. We, in the same time, are the audience. We are the writer of the play. How can we be at both places in the same time? One day you get a stage and more than once, the lights go down and the audience sits in the dark. While you, you sit beneath the lights. Sounds like a pretty lonely idea does it? The metaphor implies how we don't get to jump into skins of others and how we are stuck in one confinement for the one life we get. Not more, not less. It is lonely to have only one way of seeing so much different things. We induce emotions based on our own respective history and while other soul can have tiny impacts on our perspective, never could any of us see, or feel for all I know, wholefully like another soul.
That is why it is important that we watch the casting of other lives and try to come to an understandings with their history to be able to resonate with their reality. It's easy to say anything indifferent of their decision when we are not there through the journey that took them here.
Be careful of what we say through this one periscope of perspective because seeing different parts means seeing different story.
