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Combining Fantasy With Reality Makes For A Better, Brighter Life
Swap the mundane for the magical and make life fit for a fantasy novel
What is fantasy? This enchanting concept that encircles us like a pack of lions sniffing at a house cat? It’s everywhere we go; fantasy football, fantasy novels, our wildest dreams and risqué desires. But what actually is it?
Google tells me it’s:
“The faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things.”
By definition, fantasy separates itself from reality with this partition of probability, and on one side is us, huddled together like chickens dreaming of wings that can carry us to the stars, in the area labelled “Real Life.” On the opposite, there’s everything else, all the impossible things, the alluring, the unknown, the wondrous, the awe-inspiring, the what if’s and the imagine that’s, and all the treasures of the universe guarded by iridescent scaled dragons whose wings can transport them beyond the stars and to different realms entirely. This side we call “Fantasy Land.”
We are all so desperate to scale the wall between and experience what’s over there. Like Disneyland grew from stellar dust and several super strong psychedelics; it’s not that the grass is greener over there, it’s that it’s a…