Our daily lives are filled with responsibility, heartache and frustration. What do you do when life overwhelms you? When the idea of one more irate customer turns your stomach or your significant other announcing that they no longer find you funny gets you down, don't go for a run, find a fantasy.
It could be anything from imagining the day you runaway from it all to live on an island to meeting the man/woman of your dreams. You know, that perfect ideal that DOES NOT EXIST! If you find something you like stick with it. Enjoy it. Just don't forget its only a fantasy; reality is still a bummer.
Sometimes a tough decision you're avoiding can make fantasy much more important and it can be a fun way to work out your pro and con list. Say you're trying to decide if the Evil King is a better love match over Prince Charming. Set them off on a challenge in your mind, see who slays the dragon and who comes home crying. No one needs to know that what you're really doing is watching how they handle different situations in reality, how they handle themselves under pressure.
Fantasy also comes in handy when you've run out of goals. And despite what teachers told you in high school, this can happen. If you have a set of goals and you achieve them it is possible to become disgruntled in your day to day life. Struggling to find something else to achieve, to at least identify another goal can take awhile. If this happens, pick an unreality and struggle to make it real. For the most part you're struggling for nothing, working towards nothing, but it sure does break up your mundane existence. And in very rare occasions, fantasy can become reality. It can jump off the pages of a book and stare you in the face. I've been there, I know.
If you still find that your life is currently lacking the excitement of trying to achieve that 10 km run you just did two weeks ago, promote your fantasy. Let all your friends know you've stepped out to lunch. Let them wonder if you've completely lost it. You know you haven't. But it sure is fun watching them wonder, isn't it?
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