What's reality? You can't touch it, or feel it, you can't hear it or taste it, you can't smell it. You can't even see reality. So how do we know that reality even exists? Is there a border between the imagination and the world that separates the two? If so, where? And if we are so aware of the difference of imagination and reality, why do we encourage children to pretend and imagine? If the adults in this world have banned imagination completely, why don't we ban it for the children, too? The reason, you wonder? Why do we allow imagination in a child's world but not our own? Freedom. Children have no freedom except when they visit the place inside their heads that they have created. A world with orange grass and purple skies, where candy stores are always open, where their best friend lives, the best friend Mommy and Daddy refuse to see. It isn't that adults don't want freedom, we do. In fact all we wish for is freedom. Adults just think that if they had the kind of freedom that children in our world have today that we would get carried away and forget about the real world, we would just float off into Dreamland and never return. We would loose our jobs, our houses, our cars, but that doesn't matter because we would find and gain something in exchange for those losses, we'd find love. That is what children have that adults cherish most. Love. You've seen kids on playgrounds and at parks. Two children will meet and be total strangers and five minutes later they are inseparable best friends. Adults take years to achieve friendships such as those. I like to think that some adults in our world take the plunge and live in Dreamland, no matter how society judges and rejects them, no matter what other people say, these people I admire, these are the true leaders. So, in our world today, what is the real difference between Dreamland and Earth?
