When I like something I become obsessed. My family knows this intimately I go through phases and it’s been instrumental in the random fact collection I have. The one thing that I’ve been consistently obsessed with is fantasy and sci-fi. The concept of other worlds and dimensions intrigues me to no end. Sometimes life is so boring that we can’t help but make believe our own worlds. I think that is what is sorely lacking in us today the ability to imagine. We busy ourselves with the work of the quick fix and don’t take the time to stretch and exercise our imagination. We are content to have it be fed to us through television and movies. We can’t be bothered with reading because we’ll just wait for the movie to come out. That is so sad to me and which is why I so easily empathize with characters in sci-fi fantasy novels, who always seem to be a little bookish or an outsider and who get swept away in these wild adventures. I think all of us want to be swept up in this grand scheme to be a tool in saving the world to have our potential realized.
