Empathy

 Have been binge-watching ‘Live’ the past week and had all kinds of feelings and thoughts; it's been a while since a drama could make me feel so much sadness and empathy towards so many things. This could actually be the first, in fact! Has been making me think a lot too. 

I like the speed of the drama, slowly unfolding everyone's story while having adequate thrills in the crimes the precinct deals with. I guess, the various crimes are not the main focus of the story, but more of the individual police. So it sans all the slow build-up of a huge crime.

Thoughts. It has been making me wonder a lot about real-life issues and happenings played out in the drama; they have been executed so realistically, it is hard to not think it could happen in reality. 

Tonight, I wondered why it is always so easy to empathise with a character we watch than people we meet in real life. Why? Is it because we are too impatient to hear another out? Drama shows you the different stories to build understanding….

The episode that triggered this thought showed a retired police officer is pushed to his end; his stories too real.

“Not every crime is committed by a bad person, but many times an infuriated person who loses their cool in split seconds.”