Escapes

Once upon a time there was a such thing as "playing outside". It's an elusive form of entertainment our parents, maybe not even that generation, enjoyed. Children these days enjoy the world of WOW, we escape into myspace and frollic on our blogs. We text our friends as opposed to actually speaking to them, and we would be lost in the normal world if electronics vanished.

I ask myself what I would do without my telephone, how I would survive without myspace email and facebook conversations!? How would I know when my friends' birthdays are? How would I see them without folders of all their pictures to look at!? It's such a monsterous thought, I know.

There is a sight called MNI, it's a fan sight for *cough cough* Harry Potter *cough cough* where people such as me, and many other die hard fans, can role play fictional characters in the world created for Harry Potter by JK Rowling. It's been a sight I've been addicted to for a few years now, and unfortunately for a while I got so absorbed in the fictional lives I was leading in my role play games I was more the fake person than real. It was the perfect escape, as socially rejected as RP games are.

And then of course there are books and magazines and television. So instead of actually going out and living life, we can read or watch other people doing it from our living rooms. I am more resigned to thinking that one day we're going to run out of things to invent and children will actually have to go outside to live life, and grown ups too (just for the sake of using the word "grown ups as if the title makes them any different from kids! pfsh)

Right now, I'm typing this up on the one thing that keeps me breathing (my dear computer!), but after I'm going to try to get outside in the real world where it matters.... (: because there is a life to live that I keep missing out on.