I would like to start this post by saying i am a good old fashioned-romantic. Actually the truth is I am a geek but the first one sounded better.
More often than I would like to admit it I feel a bit out of time. The truth is I am blessed with a lovely family, I have a great job, awesome friends and I am still healthy enough to play futsal and cageball on a regular basis. And yet I do not belong to this time period.
Maybe that's the reason why I really enjoy fantasy books. I don't know about you but I really enjoy the intensity of every experienced sensation. I cannot but admire how the book unfolds under the constant threat of a horrific death.
Did it ever happen to you that you put yourself in the shoes of one of the characters. Can you be honest enough with yourself to say that you would make the exact same hard choices? Would you really make the right but at the same time self-sacrificing choice. Would we really risk getting engulfed in dragon-fire or head bashed in by a mace?
The obvious answer is that they are fictional characters and their choices have no meaning. It is all true but we read those books because we root for the character. We want to see acts of heroism we all are not capable of.
I want to look up to a fictional character who really doesn't exist. Because surely on a number occasions in life we have a dilemma- easy and a wrong choice or hard but a right one. And I want to act like warrior-prince Hofnaar from the Red-Storm Castle(or whatever), and I hope there are more people like me out there. More Heroes in the world equals a better world and of course more saved maidens :)
Do we just underestimate ourselves, do we tell ourselves we are not capable of doing meaningful things. I personally think an opportunity will arise for each and everyone one of us to show what are we made of and in the end who is a better judge of our actions but ourselves.
I was inspired to write this post after reading https://steemit.com/story/@brightfocus/the-incredible-potential-in-fantasy-and-rpg
Please comment if you think anything I said made sense, and even comment if you think I am just an idiot (I am a big boy, I can take it )
