Everyday Life: Time/​Reality Crunch

Hello,

Last week I was smacked in the face about my (and oh, sorry, I suspect your) inability to tell fantasy from reality. Espe­cially when the fantasy is part of our life. JK Rowl­ings success has to be explained some way, after all. Kids and adults aren’t lining up for Beedle and Bard to arrive at Christmas Time for any reason other than they’re longing to be re-​​immersed in that world.

So, I giggled last week when I was reading the new For Better or for Worse strip and the husband was doing his work as a dentist. I had the strangest jolt. Wait, I said, why is John doing dentistry? He retired? Huh…

It took me a while to remember two things: One, they’d restarted at the begin­ning of their married life. Two, it was a comic strip.

Now, I’m prob­ably more suscep­tible than many to the reality/​unreality continuum, but I suspect that for many of us, those other worlds are quite real.

That means that we need to be very careful which worlds we choose to inhabit and how delib­erate we need to be about living right here and right now.

Just a thought for the morning!

Ann