The Way is virtually the same

Virtually nothing is really completely virtual.  It is created by a non-virtual entity or used by a non-virtual entity. 

People have always day dreamed.  In the past those people without imaginations could lose themselves in a book to escape reality, but now it is not even necessary to be able to read to immerse myself in a make believe world thanks to movies and video games, television and the Internet.

Over using any form of escapism can be detrimental, but it isn’t a new phenomena.  Drugs, both legal and illegal, have been around since man first chewed on some weed and discovered it was possible to see funny animals.

Some people wash their hands every two minutes, others tally up column after column of numbers with some kind of relish only they understand.  It’s not the act; it is the reason behind the act, the intensity with which it is pursued that causes the problem.

Reality is harsh and it is not particularly fair.  In the beginning if a man failed to hunt or a woman to gather, they starved.  That kind of automatically weeded out most of the daydreamers.  Life is a little better than that now.  And that is thanks to the dreamers. 

Without dreamers there wouldn’t be zippers or photographs, or atomic bombs.  There is an up side and a down side to everything.

The secret is not to blame the spoon for being fat, it is to find a balance, a center point around which life gives and takes and revolves.  “A little bit of this, a little bit of that.” 

The way is always the same.