Fantasy Is the Best Reality
Friday, June 26. 2009
I finally shaved my head a few weeks ago, because I stopped living in a dream world, and started living in a fantasy world.
My hair's been slowly harvested over the past twenty years or so by pan-dimensional beings who need my dead cells to power the particle deflectors they use to keep their tiny world from being destroyed by passing dust motes. That's my theory, anyway. Well, they now have to find someone else's head to strip-mine, because I've embraced the Mace Windu look. I was getting dressed up for Star Wars Weekends (SWW) at Disney's Hollywood Studios here in Orlando, and I decided that a bald head looked more Jedi-like than a closely-cropped head with twenty years of harvesting behind it.
Yes, I do wear the Jedi robes for Star Wars Weekends. It is indeed a geek sign. I don't really care, because it's fun. It's one of the few times each year when I can substitute the fantasy in my head for the reality around me, and not be put away for a very long time.
Oh, there are some funny looks. But far more often, people react positively to seeing others embrace fantasy, and help them to visualize their own. I get many requests each year to have my picture taken with guests. I even get autograph requests, and I'm never sure how to react to that. (I'm not a cast member, nor am I a member of the Rebel Legion, who do send "official" representatives to SWW each year along with the 501st, so I don't want to misrepresent myself.)
The great thing about fantasy is that no one can take it away from you. No matter what you might think about your current reality, you can always escape into fantasy, whether it be a good book, a movie, or just a daydream. The opportunities to marry fantasy and reality—to "live out" one's fantasy—are few and far between, so I'm happy to take advantage of what SWW offers me, despite what others may think.
I'm hoping there are a great number of other people out there who feel as I do, because I'm working on a business plan for a new endeavor that depends upon this desire to mix fantasy and reality. It's a concept that would make Master Windu proud. Wish I had the Jedi Council's financial backing, though. It always takes money to make fantasy a reality.
I finally shaved my head a few weeks ago, because I stopped living in a dream world, and started living in a fantasy world.
My hair's been slowly harvested over the past twenty years or so by pan-dimensional beings who need my dead cells to power the particle deflectors they use to keep their tiny world from being destroyed by passing dust motes. That's my theory, anyway. Well, they now have to find someone else's head to strip-mine, because I've embraced the Mace Windu look. I was getting dressed up for Star Wars Weekends (SWW) at Disney's Hollywood Studios here in Orlando, and I decided that a bald head looked more Jedi-like than a closely-cropped head with twenty years of harvesting behind it.
Yes, I do wear the Jedi robes for Star Wars Weekends. It is indeed a geek sign. I don't really care, because it's fun. It's one of the few times each year when I can substitute the fantasy in my head for the reality around me, and not be put away for a very long time.
Oh, there are some funny looks. But far more often, people react positively to seeing others embrace fantasy, and help them to visualize their own. I get many requests each year to have my picture taken with guests. I even get autograph requests, and I'm never sure how to react to that. (I'm not a cast member, nor am I a member of the Rebel Legion, who do send "official" representatives to SWW each year along with the 501st, so I don't want to misrepresent myself.)
The great thing about fantasy is that no one can take it away from you. No matter what you might think about your current reality, you can always escape into fantasy, whether it be a good book, a movie, or just a daydream. The opportunities to marry fantasy and reality—to "live out" one's fantasy—are few and far between, so I'm happy to take advantage of what SWW offers me, despite what others may think.
I'm hoping there are a great number of other people out there who feel as I do, because I'm working on a business plan for a new endeavor that depends upon this desire to mix fantasy and reality. It's a concept that would make Master Windu proud. Wish I had the Jedi Council's financial backing, though. It always takes money to make fantasy a reality.
My hair's been slowly harvested over the past twenty years or so by pan-dimensional beings who need my dead cells to power the particle deflectors they use to keep their tiny world from being destroyed by passing dust motes. That's my theory, anyway. Well, they now have to find someone else's head to strip-mine, because I've embraced the Mace Windu look. I was getting dressed up for Star Wars Weekends (SWW) at Disney's Hollywood Studios here in Orlando, and I decided that a bald head looked more Jedi-like than a closely-cropped head with twenty years of harvesting behind it.
Yes, I do wear the Jedi robes for Star Wars Weekends. It is indeed a geek sign. I don't really care, because it's fun. It's one of the few times each year when I can substitute the fantasy in my head for the reality around me, and not be put away for a very long time.
Oh, there are some funny looks. But far more often, people react positively to seeing others embrace fantasy, and help them to visualize their own. I get many requests each year to have my picture taken with guests. I even get autograph requests, and I'm never sure how to react to that. (I'm not a cast member, nor am I a member of the Rebel Legion, who do send "official" representatives to SWW each year along with the 501st, so I don't want to misrepresent myself.)
The great thing about fantasy is that no one can take it away from you. No matter what you might think about your current reality, you can always escape into fantasy, whether it be a good book, a movie, or just a daydream. The opportunities to marry fantasy and reality—to "live out" one's fantasy—are few and far between, so I'm happy to take advantage of what SWW offers me, despite what others may think.
I'm hoping there are a great number of other people out there who feel as I do, because I'm working on a business plan for a new endeavor that depends upon this desire to mix fantasy and reality. It's a concept that would make Master Windu proud. Wish I had the Jedi Council's financial backing, though. It always takes money to make fantasy a reality.
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