text: Now I tend to get really caught up in movies or TV shows anyway. As a child, teen and young adult, I was addicted to quite a few Soap Opera's. I remember once my sister saying "they're our friends" and of course, that is how we feel about fictional characters when we've spent a great deal of time with them. I even saw a FB post about someone accidentally praying for the main characters one week. But we all know that no matter how realistic shows appear, it isn't real life!
  But here is something that IS real life! Our feelings. I am sad today. Our emotions really don't know the difference between real and fake. Our physiology and our health takes a cue from our emotional well-being. People who are happy tend to live longer, healthier lives. Neuroscientists have been studying our brainwaves and the effects of stress on our bodies and what they are finding is that stress and sadness effect our health in a negative way.
  Life is full of ups and downs, twists and turns. There are so many things we can't control. We get the good with the bad. When bad things happen, it's appropriate to grieve.