Monday, January 14, 2013

Fictional Expectations

Books. Movies. Games. Television. We as a culture have immersed ourselves in entertainment. We cannot stand to not be entertained somehow for any length of time. We are so seeped in fiction, that we are beginning to expect real life to follow the patterns of the fictions that we love so much. We've gotten an unrealistically high expectation of life.

Fiction is for entertainment, and while it may be modeled after life, it isn't true to life. If it was true to life, then we would just sit around watching each other instead of delving into fiction. The guy doesn't always get the girl. Good doesn't always win. People get sick and die. It's disappointing, but it's real.

We as a society need to learn to accept disappointment. I'm not saying that we should expect everything and everyone to disappoint us or that everything will go wrong, I'm just saying that we need to accept the possibility that it will. We need to learn that no one is perfect, ourselves included. We need to learn how to forgive and move past these imperfections in ourselves and others rather than just giving up because things aren't how they should be.

I think that that is all for now.

*~*Tabby Marie*~*

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