It is hard to live the fantasy and real life at the same
time. So hard, in fact, that most
people don’t even try. They give up the
fantasy altogether.
I can understand that.
It doesn’t pay the bills, or cut the grass. It won’t walk the dog or vacuum the floor. And maybe most important is the way it hurts
when I have to leave the fantasy behind and re-enter the work a day world
called reality.
A quick foray into daydreaming is like a fantasy snack, but
on those rare occasions when it is possible to drop out and immerse myself in
the world of my imagination for days at a time? Coming back from that is painful!
Leaving the freedom to be whoever I really feel like behind,
abandoning the chance to do the unusual, and especially biding farewell to my
comrades in fantasy is kind of like stepping out of a Fantastic Four movie and
into State Farm’s Corporate Headquarters.
For days I can get lost in the black and white world that
seemed wonderful before. It is
difficult to get back into the old routines and find the old perspective. But eventually the color comes back and the
magic of the trees reaches me once more and the sound of the wind singing my
song becomes a bit louder and one morning I wake up back in the beauty of
today.
I will take another trip into that other place, but I do it
knowing there is a price so it has to be worth it.
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