The more disconnected someone becomes from their own life, the more emotionally attached they become to someone else's. A sports team loses and they're devastated. A celebrity breaks up and they're emotionally invested. A politician wins or loses and their entire mood changes. It's not because these things are happening to them. It's because they've unconsciously made someone else's story more important than their own. Fantasy isn't always fiction. Sometimes it's an identity. A tribe. A screen. A narrative that lets us escape the responsibility of confronting our own reality. There's nothing wrong with enjoying sports, entertainment, or following current events. The problem starts when you're more emotionally invested in outcomes you can't control than the life you're actually living. Because at that point, you're no longer participating in reality. You're escaping from it. And the longer you live through other people, the less time you spend becoming who you're capable of b...