It has been brought to my attention that the world we live in has been, for the most part, taken for granted. We set it too much in schedules, meetings, work, and all other things that are quite mundane in some sense that we forget a lot of things. Chief of those is the wonder and magic that life holds. I have traveled a long and arduous journey this past year that has changed my view of the world. This journey is incomplete and may take awhile before it actually does, but I am not in a hurry.
What I wish to do with this blog is to share with you the experiences that has changed my view of this world and the events that I will experience this coming year that will further contribute to this view. Simply put, I want people who read this to know that the world is magical and wonderful, we just have to learn to see it. We have to learn to look past all that seem to drag us down and actually view the wonder beneath it all.
The chief contributor to this new view is my faith. It has been wonderful to see the world knowing that you have a purpose, that there is more to the pain that we have to endure, that there is always hope. I wish to discuss this some other time for I feel it will take quite a long time if laid it all out right now.
But, one other contributor to this new world view, and one that you will here of very often, is the world of fantasy. I love this genre. It has shown me that not everything that we see is what it seems. It has shown me that dragons, demons, dark lords, and inner turmoil can be conquered. Lastly, it has shown me that the wondrous landscapes of Middle-Earth up to Westeros are not confined in the pages of a book, they are out there. I have seen for myself the beauty that this world has, the Misty Mountains are real, the isles and waters of Earthsea are here. I can already imagine a scowl and a sarcastic remark forming in your head, "huh, what is this buffoon talking about?", "this guy has read far too many books.", "they can't be real, I don't see them nor hear about them." Here in lies the problem, to find these wonderful places and landscapes we must do what Bilbo and Ged chose to do, go out there and look for them. We have let ourselves sink far too deep in the comfort of the internet and the cemented walls of our schools and offices that we've stopped looking for the wonder and beauty in our lives and consequently just simply stopped seeing them.
I end this with a challenge, many of us envy the heroes of our stories. They get to go on an adventure, they go to such wonderful places, they always have the happy ending. Truth is this can be our lives, if we truly want these things to happen it is time we stopped envying the hero and become one ourselves. Look for your adventure.
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