I have come to the conclusion over my 40+ years of life that people simply hate reality. Lets face it...most of the time reality just gets in our way of having fun. More importantly, reality is simply too painful.
Now, many people reading this would say "hey, I don't take drugs, yadda yadda yadda etc..." Maybe. However, people always find ways to take themselves away from the real world. For example (and this is a short list): there's T.V., video games, drugs, work (I'll explain later), cigarettes, and comfort food.
We use all these devices to ease the pain of day-to-day living. Lets face it, life is not a bowl of cherries for most people and we need something to ease that pain. It's perfectly understandable.
Of course, maybe I'm just looking at this wrong. Society tends to declare anything that's not fun as reality. Couldn't we just as easily say that reality is everything we do? It's all real. It may often be stupid, pointless, and meaningless but it did happen. Shit, I don't know anyone who has any magic powers that can change reality to make it "unreal". Perhaps the whole notion is simply a nod to our egos. Who are we to think we can some how escape reality? There's no escaping it folks. The best you can do is to maybe ignore it for a while. Yes, that's it.
So, my friends I propose to you that perhaps everything you do is real. At the very least, it's real to you given that perception defines reality (see Humean philosophy and David Hume). That's all that really matters in the end. Consequently, the real world can be fun because everything you do is REAL.
