Kids-A foreward to fantasy and fiction

Well, this blog has been a long time coming. I really didn't know what to blog about. One of the hottest topics would've been the lok pal bill. but everyone's giving their point of view about that issue, that i would prefer to shut up. So after rummaging through topics for almost 2 yrs now, yeah that's a long long time i know, but considering i didn't have access to a PC for over a year, i think that's understandable. So yes, i finally got a topic to write about. Or to be more precise quote. And i absolutely loved the idea which struck me. So here's what i want to write about.

It all began, after i got a calvin and hobbes book as a present. What a lovely present you may exclaim!I absolutely love those characters! Both of them actually. And to a very large extent i must say i connect with calvin. Simply because what he construes and constructs is simply the truth for him. Reality in other words is just a perception. So here is this blog, inspired by Bill Waterson and Foreword by Garry Trudeau.

Trudeau says "There are few wellsprings of humor more consistently reliable than the mind of a child." What exactly does he mean by this? That a kid can do a stand up? Well no. Because as Garry puts it, it mainly has do with the constant shifting frames of references. Now, would that require mastery over the linguistic and mental Cartesian planes or co-ordinates? Maybe not. The main reason for this is the simple fact which we go through ourselves. If we're to put a fully grown adult human in a completely new place, say a new country, he would display childlike inquisitiveness. He would want to know everything about the place, how a thing works and how it doesn't. This is pretty much like showing the brand new ipad to an octogenarian! "Reality is highly situational" This sentence holds in good stead when it comes to kids. One would hear stories narrated by a child as to how, he probably fought a dino with a water gun! As adults we're unfortunately conditioned to think that's scientifically not possible. After all, dino's were extinct long back. But, has one wondered how that kid, came up with a situation like that? Maybe he's blessed to not have studied theories printed in humongous books weighing as much as him? The utterance which an adult knows to be a "lie" may well reflect a child's deepest conviction. At least at the moment it is. Gerry says "Fantasy is so accessible , and it is joined with such force and frequency, many parents feel they are being manipulated, when the truth is far more frightening: they don't even exist."
It truly shows, that "a child is both king and keeper of this realm." This brings me to wonder, the Adults are forever on the hunt for the elixir of the youth, the serendipity of youth, for themselves. Always in the quest to retrieve the irretrievable.
The question is what is reality? Is it a perception? And why is that when we grow up, reality morphs into a completely new meaning? Why are things classified accessible? As the author says, "A desperate few do things, that later lands them in Betty Ford Centre" or our very own alcoholics anoymous. "The rest of us, more sensibly read Calvin & Hobbes."

This is so true, considering the fact that, most of the fantasies including the Mega Saga of Star Wars and its innumerable part, all are derived through