Fictionalized Realities
Oftentimes I wonder if we are more infatuated by the fictionalization of the lives we lead from the viewpoint of our imaginations than we are by the person we profess to love. We're good at overthinking things. We create our own, personal versions of how situations are: everything is exactly how we want it. But when something bends out of shape, steps out of line, or changes in the slightest, our misinterpreted perceptions shatter. We fall in love with the chase, we obsess over the story. We are more focused on the effects certain circumstances will have in our lives than we are on the actual love we have for others. Essentially, we live lies. Lies told softly to us by our own rampant imaginations and expectations that have no hold on reality whatsoever. We fall in love with the situations of others long before we realize how lucky we are in our situations. And far too often, when we finally unravel ourselves from these alternate states of mind, we miss what's right in front of us. Or we realize that we missed out on opportunities to truly discover what real love is. All because we were too busy trying to create false fantasies far from anything that was ever real.
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