The Concept of Fantasy

Thomas Agrusti

Life

February 24, 2012

The Concept of Fantasy

                I’ve been pondering a lot over the past few years about the concept of fantasy. I’ve found that, often, people are too distracted by what they have or what they want in front of them. They need physical manifestation. They don’t want to imagine something, they want something. It’s the working held in between the desire and acquiring the end result that holds us back though.

 However, I have found that, with fantasy, with diving into one’s own psyche and reveling in one’s own imagination, we can manifest those emotions that would be felt, acquire how our bodies would react given the situation were present.

Also, in some cases I’ve found, the emotions we think we should feel when presented with the accomplished scenario aren’t present. The night we waited for was not as spectacular as we wanted it to be, the movie was decent to say the least, and it was really just an average day in the end. It is in these cases I feel that fantasy can reign even more powerful. By delving into the control of one’s psyche, we can manifest the exact emotions that we want to feel, become out own judicator of experience.

The scary part is that, by becoming this, we fall into many devilish parts of power. We could, in turn, become our own drug. We have such control over ourselves that we lose control, we only want those emotions, those experiences, nothing else. Why work for them when I can create them? Thusly, we do lose out of the idea of opportunity, things we more than likely wouldn’t have conceived. In turn, I think we can all agree that, though there are many times that life does nip us in the end, there are times when God does, indeed, work in mysterious ways, making what was originally intended to be a dull day into a spectacular one that we couldn’t have expected, meeting the person you thought you knew everything about, learning you actually did better than you intended and shall go farther because of it.

It is here that fantasy falls. For who are we to dominate and say what is life? Is life simply the expressions we bear on our faces, the neurons, serotonin and endorphins contained within our brains, our contemplation of scenarios experienced and unexperienced in life?

I believe Shakespeare, and who am I but another player to fall to the spell of the ever astounding poet, said it perfectly, when God has laid his plan, and our future is unclear, but we are ever anxious and excited to meet it, these words present themselves well:

                “Fate show thy force, for what is to come, in this, shall be.”

With all such said, I wish you a merry day and a blessed life.

                Living in His Name,

Thomas Agrusti