by Michelle Jones

Created on: May 08, 2008

Why do so many of us avoid reality? How do we know the difference between reality and fantasy, when we never want to face reality and rather live in a world of fantasy. When is that point in your lives when the two seem to become entwined together, making you feel that there is no reality and there is no fantasy. There is just day to day life that we have to get on with.

Maybe if you were to live in a world of dreams, there would only be fantasy. But i think by doing this you would never really achieve anything in your life, because there would be no motivation to get you your goals. Hopes and dreams are very well but in reality you work at what you want. Dreams and fantasies will make happy for a while, but what happens when you wake up and realize that you have wasted your life away dreaming?

In reality what really does it mean to you? To me i woke up to reality when i realized that i had to face up to my responsibilities when i had my son. I had put him first then my family and me last.I had to face the reality that i would do that for the rest of my life. Although i still fantasize that one day i will make something of myself, i will be a mother my son can be proud of. Still we can all dream can't we.

For some reality doesn't exist in lives, they live a world of their own, away from all that are around them. I think that they do this to block out what is happening all around them. They forget that their is bad and evil in the world and only see good. Surely that this delusional state of mind can not be healthy to a person. Wouldn't they be knocked for six when reality does hit them?

And then there are those who have no concept of reality at all. The people who really do live in a world of fantasy by no fault of their own. What will happen to these people when others try to get through to them? I think that some people with mental health problems do not see that there is another world outside their own. For that i both envy and pity them.

So all in all reality to me is life itself, The things that we have strive for every day to achieve our goals. Reality that i am a mother and i do have to take my responsibility's seriously. Some may think that i act too seriously but at the end of day it's only me that can make my reality's and fantasy's work for me. I am the only one who can make something of mine and my family's future. In my hopes and dreams i want my son to grow up to know that you have to work hard if you want a decent life, but in reality at the end of the day it will his choice. He will be the one to decide what his hopes and dreams are, not what i would like them to be.

So i think that reality is what you want it to be and what you make it.

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