Fiction vs. Reality

I just finished watching a WongFu production, Shell and it inspires me to share my thoughts in this blog. This video is about fiction and reality. Our lives are shaped by our experiences. Our experiences are preserved in our memories. But what if we had a chance to remember things that we never actually experienced? "Shell" explores this idea through a quiet conversation. If you could look through a window that softened the edge between reality and fiction, what would you want to see? What would you want to remember?


If i am asked whether i would prefer to live in fiction or reality, my answer will be in fiction. I am a girl who loves to fantasize and i don't mean to bluff, but i really have a very good imagination. Which is why when it comes to writing fiction essays, i would spend all of my time writing and never wanting my story to end. 


Some people may disagree with me, saying that reality is something you have to face no matter what.  Yes i know, but i have always believed that man has choices in his life. He has options and he has the right to choose whether he wants to stay in the real world his whole life or to pay visits to the world in which everything you desire will come to you and there is nothing that can stop it. 


For me, living in fiction is actually fun and it can actually build up your confidence. People say that dreams and fantasies and imaginations are useless. But think again. They are wrong. For example, you can never get rich if you never once thought about the things you can do or get if you become rich one day, right? In other words, everyone needs imaginations and dreams. Without them, we will never be complete. Dreams and imaginations links to reality and they always pushes us to try harder to make fiction into reality. 


Fiction brings us into a world without limits. A world that is so perfect that it is impossible in reality. Fiction brings us beyond our expectations and i don't think that is a bad thing. I believe that J.K. Rowling,Cecelia Ahern and a bunch of other famous writers will back me up on this. 


Reality sometimes hurt. I should put it this way: Most of the time, reality hurts. And the only cure to it is fiction. This is because what you cannot achieve in reality can be achieved in fiction. All it needs is a bit of imagination and creativity. :)