The difference
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy
How alluring is the world of fantasy. It is a world where the good guys win and everyone gets what they are entitled to. The bad guys get punished and Kharma is perfectly logical as everyone who works hard gets exactly what they deserve in the end. How easy it is to get sucked into worlds where we can kill those who hurt us, slay demons and dragons with swords, and the innocent falsely accused eventually walk free. How inviting is a reality where there are second chances and people can overcome their pasts, and all people have some sort of good within them.
But that is not reality.
In reality you are often hurt by those who think they love you, who hurt themselves just as much. In the real world we are powerless to achieve justice through a flawed legal system that has no Mr. Monk or any of the equipment available on crime dramas. In the real world bad things happen to good people who do not deserve them, and in the real world entropy makes heroes into invalids. In the real world, inner demons haunt the majority of people, whether they are aware of it or not. They conflict and confuse their souls making good people do bad things.
Not everyone can be friends,
not all wounds mend,
and most things do not happily end.
How alluring is the world of fantasy. It is a world where the good guys win and everyone gets what they are entitled to. The bad guys get punished and Kharma is perfectly logical as everyone who works hard gets exactly what they deserve in the end. How easy it is to get sucked into worlds where we can kill those who hurt us, slay demons and dragons with swords, and the innocent falsely accused eventually walk free. How inviting is a reality where there are second chances and people can overcome their pasts, and all people have some sort of good within them.
But that is not reality.
In reality you are often hurt by those who think they love you, who hurt themselves just as much. In the real world we are powerless to achieve justice through a flawed legal system that has no Mr. Monk or any of the equipment available on crime dramas. In the real world bad things happen to good people who do not deserve them, and in the real world entropy makes heroes into invalids. In the real world, inner demons haunt the majority of people, whether they are aware of it or not. They conflict and confuse their souls making good people do bad things.
Not everyone can be friends,
not all wounds mend,
and most things do not happily end.