Fantasy trips
The book ‘If you meet the Buddha on the Road, kill him!’ has been one of my favourite readings recently. The author, Sheldon B. Kopp encourages the readers to take fantasy trips to the tales he shared, to travel back to unfinished dreams (even so to nightmares), and to fantasize to the limit of our imagination.
We tend to believe that we are free to do whatever we like only in our fantasy. It is, however, not so, because we are free to do whatever we like in real life, too, we only need to face the consequences.
When we do a fantasy trip, it sometimes happens that we find some truth in ourselves beyond reason. In real life we are distracted by the conventional wisdom. A fantasy trip can thus bring us much relief and fulfillment, and at the same time can be true in reflecting our own real self.
By taking myself to these fantasy trips, I use Sheldon B. Kopp’s words only to launch the fantasy. I don’t mean to write his sentences as if they were mine. I mix them with my writing out of respect and amazement. In most cases he found the most suitable expressions, compared to which I could only use a secondary solution to describe.
In these times when traveling has become a hobby, a profession, a source of creativity and fame for so many, I am exploring this simple way, a reading journal of fantasy trips, to cross infinity distances.
