There’s a blur that crosses between the two; reality and fantasy. Sure, we may call Jersey Shore a reality T.V show, but I think most would agree to otherwise. And then there’s the news that chooses to be selective by eliminating minor but nonetheless, true details. So does leaving out some of the truth mean it is the truth? I’d say it’s fake. Think about exaggerated stories; Even though most people have the notion that the story is not entirely the way the other person had made it out to be, they seem to justify the story as telling the truth by “deep down” knowing it really isn’t. I mean, who hasn’t heard the drunk stories? These always tend to be exaggerated, because the person wants to leave you bewildered and respond by some kind of approval like saying... “That’s crazy!”. Too bad in reality, the person that’s listening doesn’t give two shits about what happened unless it’s a leeway for them to talk about their own experiences. The person knows that the story is exaggerated, but faking interest doesn’t make it any more true.
The first thing that crosses my mind, when I think of truth, is friendship. Would you want your friends to be fake to you? Of course not, it defeats the ideals of friendship. Friendship is about people who are genuine and people whom you can rely on. So what happens if the truth is, your friend is being a not-so-great friend? That is when I would like to turn to the fake world and strongly believe that this person will change, when realistically speaking, people rarely do change. I told my friend this and she asked me “So doesn’t that mean you’re setting yourself up for failure?”.
Everybody relies on the fake world to hold on to the belief that everything is going to be okay, and you will get that happily ever after. Why else do we follow soap operas, and dramas? Why do we try to make them relative to our lives? Because they are our way of escaping from reality for a brief moment, and that’s what gets us by. So you’re content with things, and making things bearable by holding unto a lie. People always say “Whatever makes you happy”, does the same rule apply?
You can’t have either or- and the thing is, reality and fantasy becomes harder and harder to distinguish because our world is full of possibilities. Reality is built on what we know to be the truth. But sometimes things we envision, we dream of,; or fantasize of things that hasn’t yet made existence, later becomes a reality. Whoever thought it would be possible to invent the light bulb before Thomas Edison’s time? We need some sort of falsity so that we don’t limit ourselves to what is reality for the time being.
