The Two Worlds

We suffer more in imagination than in reality - I happened to read this profound statement somewhere on Facebook and it instantly triggered a thought process in my head. The above line is true because sometimes the cause of our suffering lies solely in our mind. We imagine our problems to be bigger than they actually are causing much distress to ourselves. If we were to replace ‘suffer’ with the word ‘live’ in the opening sentence, then that holds true as well because sometimes we live more freely in our imagination than in the real world. The point is that all of us live in these two worlds – the real and the imaginary and we keep moving from one to another with effortless ease.

The real world is the physical space and the actual events and circumstances that transpire in our life. The imaginary world is the magical world that we create inside our head. It is our thoughts that spin around to create this magical web. It is the creative space. So depending on the quality of our thoughts we can be happy or stressed in this imaginary space.  And that after all is what influences the real world.

I call the imaginary space the magical world because here we are free to dream the forbidden, the less thought of and be true in the expression of our feelings. The imagination is far more powerful and dangerous than we think.  It allows access to things not permitted in the real world. But also allows us to shed inhibitions and discover our true selves.  Not always does the imaginary turn into real but that is where the ‘magic’ lies – in just experiencing things in our physical being. And the best part is that no one can take away this experience from us. So turn around your imagination into your creative playfield and use it a lot more than you already do and you will discover that the ‘magic’ I talk about follows silently but surely.