by While reading the stories to her kids and making them believe in Santa, magic, witch, fairy, genie, a prince or princess, monster, superman, batman, spider man , power girls and what not, she was thinking and asking why the Fantasy world seems real only as a kid, why do you loose the meaning of it when you grow up, why can’t she have her fantasy world now ?
Fantasy as the word describes itself: imaginary, bizarre emotion, not real. When a grown up believes in fantasies, they are often labeled as “Space cadet”, “the one who lives in la la land” or “starry eyed person who lives in cloud land”, it makes me wonder why do we make our kids believe in them or do we expect that reality will struck one day and they will realize its all fiction with no meaning, isn’t that tearing apart their entire childhood belief ?
To find the answers, I read many papers , articles and science reports which justifies the point of engaging kids in fictional play as it improves there social, behavioral and conceptual mind, then why it is so difficult to digest that an adult is living in fantasies?
I have heard many stories about women’s especially that they live in their la la land or have wild fantasies, most of them are even labeled as mentally unstable or being depressed. Well instead of judging if these people can try to understand her, will really help. Often people say that, “Fantasies are the escape route for any unpleasant emotion or an escape from the present reality.” This might not be true. If you are fantasizing about something you don’t have but others do, then its not a fantasy for sure. It’s your wishful desire to have everything that others have.
Fantasies are beautiful, it creates wonders with no comparison. Yes it can be an escape from unpleasant situation of your life. You can imagine to be anything , anywhere, with anyone in existing or non-existent dimension. Happy or sad but it is yours. Many creative persons in world are actually living in their fantasy world, either with Art, Music, or a movie they project to us. Its simply beautiful, no matter what others think. It is YOUR imagination with no boundaries. Trouble happens when we tend to forget the difference between real and imaginary world. Whatever you wish for, as long as you are aware of your mindful thoughts, as long as you are not ignoring the real life because of your amazing fantasy world, you are good. Believe in yourself, having fantasies and living in that world is not always bad. Do it like meditation for your happy soul. Perhaps you are making a fantasy world to escape from the real world, do that but for a limited time. Consider your mind is your phone and this phone has charging station in your fantasy world, when your battery is low go to the charging station when you are 100% charged, unplug and get ready to drain.
SHE.
“Someday I believe I will find the magic lamp with genie in it :D”
