We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
I don't agree with Iris Murdoch's quote about reality. We live life as a reality.
Every car that drives by, every bird that flies overhead and every person that we meet, is
real. We grow up watching movies about the fantasy world, the world of illusion, but
when the T.V. is turned off, it's back to the reality of nine-to-five jobs, bills and all. I
think the real challenge in life is to find our own fantasy world; our escape from reality,
where we can live life as we wish it could be lived.
Our priorities for living a fulfilled, successful and therefore, happy, life include
money, career and family. We evaluate each other's success in life based on how much
of each we attain. Although deemed essential by our society, they don't necessarily
constitute the ideal life for everyone. Living in a fantasy world of our own making would
mean that each of us could live the life we chose to, without a need for money, career or
personal attachments. We need to create illusion and allow it to replace reality.
Movies are an example of our need for illusion and they allow us to escape our
own reality. We see others living out haunting ghost stories, romance novel fantasies or
exciting, high risk adventure tales and yearn to trade them places. However unlikely it is
that we will wake up one morning and be sent into space on a mission to save the world
from a huge asteroid, we still want to believe it's possible. When we turn the movie off,
we turn reality back on. As the movie rewinds, reality fast-forwards. The illusion was
the plastic disc fantasy. Reality is what remains when the disc has finished playing. The
popcorn bowl still needs washing, the dog still needs a walk and t
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