It's an opportunity to separate ourselves from any aspects of ourselves that we no longer want.
It tells us things that pertain to our lives, presuming that we will recognize ourselves (or at least aspects of ourselves) in its characters.
Krishna represents the awareness and possibility that we hold within ourselves to destroy these troubling aspects of ourselves.
So, we're not playing ourselves but we're definitely playing aspects of ourselves that have been amplified into a character for the sake of the story.
Online we have this extraordinary opportunity to explore different aspects of ourselves through primarily text-based communication, by manipulating language and becoming wordsmiths ourselves.
Just as we can suppress some aspects of ourselves in our self-presentation to others, so we can do the same to ourselves in acknowledging or not acknowledging what we desire.
Striving to avoid unwanted aspects of ourselves and our lives creates stress – by facing them openly in meditation, we give ourselves a chance to relate to suffering more skilfully, with confidence and compassion.
I think cosplay can produce the same benefits, it creates a pathway for us to channel aspects of ourselves that need to come out, whether we do so as another character or eventually as ourselves.
It divides us from aspects of ourselves.
"My goal is to open doorways to more spiritual aspects of ourselves".
Indeed, the pleasure is the thing that allows us to confront these unbearable aspects of ourselves.
