Being Real Is Overrated; I Love Living In A Fantasy
Walk into my escapist paradise, it’s the season to be delusional as heck
You know what? Living a real or practical life can be boring as fuck. No seriously, how dull would life be if we didn't have movies, books, myths, poems, art, and abstract concepts that entertain and inspire us?
There is something in living a life of our own imaginative creation. I love it.
It gives me butterflies just thinking about it. It’s a reason I love period dramas so much. Take me to another time, any day. I’m an old soul at heart, and retro has always been the name of the game.
Vintage shops, old book stores, alternative culture environments, medieval festivals, art, and craft shows and festivals, museums, books, travel to old sites, vintage fashion, homesteading, and learning the old ways? Throw the lot at me. I’ll take sweet escapist fantasy any day. It’s a tonic to the soul.
I’m very happy living in my own made up fantasy, at least in my mind mostly. For practical reasons I’m unable to own a cottage somewhere in the woods, walking through the forest daily, reading, and writing poetry by the creek on the regular.
But you bet I live the dream in my head. It’s one reason I enjoy watching period drama movies with lots of nature-based scenes. If the cottage and meadow won’t come to me, I’ll go to it. Because this urban dwelling girlie can’t get enough of surreal nature.
Watching movies set in the past allows my mind to escape my current reality, get lost in engaging story lines, and soak up all the beautiful vista of nature, and modern-technology devoid scenes. It’s sheer bliss!
Escaping in fantasy also invites more beauty in my life. It’s a main reason I love art and creativity so much. Art invites us to step into our imaginations safely. Or into the musings and mind of the artist. It’s a sweet escape from this often ugly world, with all its harsh edges.
Escaping into beauty and harmony gives me a sense of all is right in this world. I don’t feel so overwhelmed by everything. I don't feel my soul is heavy, and being corroded by the mediocrity and silliness we're all thrown with every day.
I invite you to be more delusional and escapist in your life. See what sparks of freedom, inspiration, and beauty it alights.
- read more books and poems
- dye your hair
- visit a new place or venue just for the sake of it
- speak more honestly with people
- start a creative practice and share with the world
- start saying no more, and care less what other people think of you
- visit museums, galleries, and concerts more
All of these are paths to liberation, and ways to invite more fantasy and beauty to your days. Craft and live in your own unique fantasy, and care less what the world thinks.
Bake whacky dinosaur-shaped cakes. Paint or draw abstract art. Start learning a new skill. Talk to random people, anything, really.
Engage in things that invite you joyfully to escape. Sometimes it’s just the thing your soul needs.
