Doing and Feeling

If you watch a furious athletic event, and you get tired, though the athletes expend all the energy—that’s vicarious fatigue.

If your friend goes on a bender, and as you watch him absorb one drink after another, you begin to feel giddy and stimulated, that’s vicarious intoxication.

If you watch a mother in a motion picture or dramatic play suffer horribly at the death of her child, and you go through the same agony, that’s vicarious torment.

本季题库 Part 3 的一道题：

Why do people always miss their childhood？

本书的一段话：

Do you sometimes experience a keen, almost physical, longing for associations or places of the past?

When you pass the neighborhood in which you were born and where you spent your early years, do you have a sharp, strange reaction, almost akin to mild nausea? When you are away from home and friends and family, do pleasant remembrances crowd in on your mind to the point where your present loneliness becomes almost unbearable, and you actually feel a little sick? This common feeling is called: nostalgia