Why Defy Reality?

A new blog. A fresh place to release my thoughts for random and anonymous people to comment on my uneventful and rather boring life. So if you are one of those users, I shall do my best to leave you some room to comment.

Given the title of this blog, I thought it would be apropos to begin by address the obvious question, why would one want to defy reality?

Phone calls, job applications,, bills, cleaning, yard work, bills, relationships, obligations, bills. All of the aforementioned are things that may have been a worry from time to time as we have grown up, but they have never been a central concern. These things were never a concern because we were all institutionalized in this nice neat little system that we typically refer to as education. From the age of five we are sent away from home for 9 hours a day to "learn" while we manage to avoid the problems that are typically associated with what our elders call "reality."

When we decide that we are done going to school, we have to face that so-called "reality." Rather than a gentle transition, our introduction to reality often resembles a brisk walk across a plank and swift kick that sends us spiraling toward the water. When we hit the surface we feel the cold icy twinges of pain as what feels like nails pierce our skin. It takes us awhile to regain our composure, to realize that we do kind of know how to swim.

We start to paddle, and depending on how much we have been forced to learn during the few years prior, we start to make a bit of progress. Sadly, we have no control over how well we know how to swim. Unless someone has put us in the water earlier in our lives and tried to teach us how to paddle and kick, we will know little.

What we quickly realize once we start to paddle is that there is never a break. It is constant paddling. We are constantly trying to reach the surface so that we could have a break, and we never get there. We are always addressing some emergency, making important calls, finding jobs, working, paying bills, tending to obligations, working on relationships, etc. It doesn't end.

Why would we want to learn what the "reality" that our elders always talk about is? Why would we want to be part of a world where all we do is constantly try to make it to the surface that seems so far away. Perhaps I am just as cynical as I have constantly been accused of being, or perhaps I am just being realistic.

So my theory is . . . we should try to find a way to address the parts of reality that we must address while defy the reality that those mindless repetitious tasks are all that there is to life. We must defy the monotony and create our own reality. For this I think is how one should live life.