Real Life vs Make Believe

*I like the Make Believe because there you can be whatever you want to be...

*You can be wealthy and successful...

*You can be in the USA this minute, and in China the very next...

*You can be loved by the most handsome/beautiful and wonderful person in the whole world...

*You can have the best things in the whole world; the best clothes, shoes, perfumes, jewellery, cars, houses...

*You can have the best job or most successful business around...

*You can dine with Kings, Presidents of countries; heck, you can be President of the United States...

*You can be happy 24/7, 365 days, day and night...

*And so on...

*Real Life is hard...

*Real Life hurts...

*Real Life sucks...

*Real Life takes away what you've built for years...

*Real Life takes away loved ones...

*Real Life gives you the worst crap ever...

*You get a terrible spouse in Real Life...

*You have fifty pairs of shoes but can confidently wear just two out of all fifty anywhere in Real Life...

*In Real Life, it doesn't matter how qualified you are, what matters is which influential person you know and how close you are with that person because you may know someone who knows someone who knows the Governor, and remain jobless for years...

*In Real Life, you marry as a virgin, yet remain childless while someone who has had countless abortions is blessed with lots of children...

*In Real Life, you marry as a virgin yet your husband beats you and cheats on you while the street girls get the best husbands...

*I say again, Real Life sucks...

*However, there's this distinctive quality about Real Life that the Make Believe will never ever be able to counter and that's the ability to feel.

*In the Make Believe, you can never feel the touch of another person. You can imagine being kissed, caressed and made love to but you can't actually feel these things.

*In Real Life, you get it real. You feel stuff, you taste stuff. You get cramps. You feel hurt and pain. You feel the anguish of heartbreak. You feel the warmth in an embrace. You feel the sweetness of a kiss. You enjoy the ecstatic feeling of great sex.

*I like the Make Believe. I go there every other day because Its a comfy place; its somewhere to run to when the pressure becomes overbearing. But I don't stay there for long because of the overwhelming desire I have to feel. So, I climb back down to real life.

*Real life is tangible. Real life is where it actually happens. Real life is flesh; its in your hand. You taste it, you feel it. Its here and now. It is.

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