I just watched someone being interviewed on TV
about Home and Away and thought how strange that some people can be so involved and empathetic towards characters in soaps and yet so removed from their own families and real people around them. The danger is that when you identify with a TV personality's problems you begin to see them as more real than those around you and family. My mother is like that. She can cry for a character in say The Bill but feel quite unemotional about anything that happens to me or my brothers. She is removed from... Sign in to see full entry.