Reading Great Novels Helps You Sharpen Your Empathy

The best way to refine one's morality is to distance oneself from your own ego. Reading these great novels is learning to sympathize with another, whether they are like you or not. The wonderful thing is to read characters who are not like you at all and then find that you share so many commonalities that you could might as well be brother or sister. We know however that those suffering from PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, get huge benefits from replaying through vicarious experience. You can never tarnish somebody with a brush just because their their ostensible opinions may differ from yours.