Fantastical Reality

"I'm sure you're better as a fantasy than actual reality."

I heard those words on the steps of a museum in LA. Xxxx and I were waiting in line to fully experience the 'interactive art installation'.

It stunned me. The total disregard for feelings. The inconsideration. And the absolute truth of how people perceive life...like one long horrible reality TV show...or drawn out rom com...for example.

And what has become of our human interaction and perception? What has the human experience transcended to when it comes to actual emotions?

We break up relationships through text messages. We have email now (when was the last time you received a letter in the mail?). We can peruse through profiles and 'shop' for dates on Match.com, E harmony, My Space, etc.

There's such a disconnection on that personal level...you know?

Remember when you were a kid and if you wanted to hang out with your best friend down the street? You would just go and knock on the door, right? Yeah, now we have interactive video games that allow us to 'talk' to our friends clear across the continent. Amazing on some levels. Daunting on others.

I guess I'm reminiscing on the old days of climbing trees and playing in the middle of the street. The times of an archaic technology, before the days of the cell phone, Xbox and Jenna Jameson's replicated vagina.

And I realized on Sunday, how important it was to actually see your friends and loved ones...face to face. To forgo the electronic leash, to resist the urge to Twitter on your day...to just listen to the sounds of the ocean and relish the present company..whoever it may be...

..................and for Symmetry's sake.....we come full circle in the Fantastical Reality of right now...
The muse of today's rant...how we all strive for the 'ideal'.

The 'ideal' partner, job, life...

How, at times, we get so wrapped up in the fantasy of our desires that we're oblivious to the fact that the reality of the situation is a direct contrast of what we perceive.

How, at times, we fall in love with someone's potential or 'idea' than the actual reality of who they are now. Presently. Not who you foresee them being 5/10 years from now...

How, at times, we think Forever will be the end all, be all of the 'Happily Ever After'...and in actuality...there is no Forever. There's only Right Now.

It's funny. Trying to sift through all the bullshit. Contemplating and analyzing. Coming to some realizations of how we truly perceive things....

Aww...fuck it..

I'll just wave my magic wand.
Giggle into the Dawn.
And smile to myself.
Knowing...
we can blend both Fantasy and Reality.

That I'm better as I am...
................... because I'm experiencing a reality that's fuckin' fantastic.

Own it.
Embody it.
Your very own world.
It's yours for the taking.