Fantasies...

What Is It That You Fantasize about?

• World Peace... (yeah right... LOL)
• International Fame
• An Oscar
• Pulitzer Prize
• Nobel Peace Prize
• MTV Music Award
• Meeting some genius hunk, obstensibly bad but simmering with an uncontainable passion for... Something

Fantasies have to be unrealistic... because the moment... the very second you get what you seek you can't/don't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist desire must have it's object perpetually absent... It's not the "it" that you want... It's the fantasy of "it".

So Desire Supports Crazy Fantasies... One cannot exist without the other. It seems, as Pascal has said, that we are only truly happy when daydreams are about future happiness...

You know the old sayings...

• The hunt is sweeter than the kill...
• Be careful what you wish for...

Not because you'll get it. But because you're doomed not to want it once you do.

So basically Living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. In the end the only way we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.