The fantasy all around us, Is it real?

[Angel]

Today I was walking through 'my fantasy garden' (actually its just the garden in front of the courthouse where I work)...  the flowers are blooming and green leaves have finally come in.  I noticed what I thought was a big, black dragon fly.   We get those around here sometimes, I always like seeing them.  Well, this time I was wrong.  It wasn't a dragon fly at all, but something I hadn't seen here before.  It was a tiny hummingbird enjoying the nectar from some flowers.  He was dark all over and had bright magenta on his head, the same color as the flowers he was sipping from.

 

It really seemed like something I could have imagined, but it was real.  So much nicer than a daydream.  The hummingbird flitted about long enough for me to get a real good look before he flew off.  It was really quite magical.  I felt excited like a little kid!

 

When I tell other people the response is "That's nice" or "Uh-huh."  Basically whoop-di-doo.  I want to ask them, "Where is that little kid inside of you?"  "Have you lost all sense of wonder?"  But I don't say anything.  Instead I think this is one reason why I talk to the characters in my head.  My "imaginary friends" have never lost their sense of wonder, they would be just as amazed at seeing a hummingbird.  Or a waterfall or the first leaves of spring or tiny flowers at the park...  All of the amazing things around us that nobody sees, or at least nobody cares about.

[Marie]

That's so cool! I see great things like that all the time, but I do tend to get the same sort of reaction you get... Most of my friends think I am a little bit childish because of it, but I think the world might be better if more people saw it as children do.

I feel like for me the two times I feel most alive are when magical little things like that happen, or I'm daydreaming. Because when magical things happen, it's like something I might daydream has come into reality. Sometimes it even feels like I brought it there.

[Angel]

@ Kris - Thanks, I'm glad you like the blog.  The way children can enjoy things is magic, if we can recapture that once we older... well, I think that's a wonderful feeling!

 

@ Anette - I do the same with my fiance.  I point out little flowers at the park and he's like "Yeah?"  But sometimes he surprises me and points some flowers out to me that I hadn't seen on my own.  He's a strange guy.

[Kristen B. Scherzinger]

It's like a fantasy garden I could imagine this!.. If i'm the person you told too, I'll be grateful and happy because It's like going back to childhood roaming around the garden, playing hide and seek and enjoy the essence of the garden. I never spent my childhood like that, I'm like going to school, home, church (a boring one) My mom's like "don't go outside! stay home do your homework!" I'm like "okay!wish I was a bird". That's why I have this awkwardness thing (which i hate most!)....But i like Your blog!