So I honestly just...you guys know I´m a reader. Like, that´s why I´m on here anyway.

BUT. There is a problem, many people will agree, with reading these amazing stories. It unfortunately...is falling in love with the characters.

NOT saying that it´s bad. No no no no. I do it all the time. But...it becomes a problem when...they die.

Like all the times that I have closed a book and cried over them. Them being a fictional character. Who never iteracted with me once.

I think that it´s because WE knew them. We went with them on journeys and laughed at their jokes, or called them stupid becasue they embarassed themselves. We were there with them. Even if they didn´t know us...we fell in love with them.

And when they died, our brains can´t tell that they were fictional. Like of coarse our mind knows, but the part that mourns them doesn´t. So when we cry over them, it isn´t just because we´re sad. We are literally mourning someone we knew.

I still know it will hurt. Anytime that happens I know it won´t get easier. My family doesn´t understand. But I know they won´t. They weren´t there with me when I read about them. My family, and others who will judge, will never know that character like I did. 

I did not just see them as a character. I saw them as a person. And it is ok that I mourned their death. Those who did not know them like I did won´t know why I care so much about them. But it doesn´t matter.

And I know that there are people out there that need to hear this. If you don´t really know what I´m talking about. I don´t care. 

But please.

Don´t ever be the person that mocks someone for crying over a fictional character.

Because that wasn´t a character to them. They were a person.