Reality is often more beautiful than imagination

The reality is real. The imagination is not. We can all imagine all sorts of wonderful things. Pain free lives full of love and riches. We still live in reality though. There is only one life and this is it. You should try to make this life the best you possibly can. At your disposal you have your thoughts and your actions. Reality is better in the sense it’s more consistent and verifiable. Imagination is better in the sense it’s more unbound to limitations and broad. You are human - therefore you have the cognition to imagine and you always will, because you will compare events situations etc - A bad day is only bad because you can and do compare it to a day where you experienced better,in your mind, events - and vice Versa !

But when you compare, you often despair. It’s great to dream. But just like life itself is full of contradiction, we too must hold two contradicting views in our heads about most things. In your case it is be grateful for what you have but strive for more. Be content but never settle. Be calm but be restless. A few years ago if someone had said this sh*t to me, it would have driven me mad. It sounds like a non-answer. What I now understand is it is the only way to be. The reality you imagine is your goal. Make it clear, make it a vision. Write it down. What do you imagine in your perfect reality? Use this as your driving force through everything you do. Move towards that. It will be your guiding light.

But as you have alluded to, yearning for a different life can make you unhappy. So you need to be give thanks and love everything you have now. For it is all there so you can define yourself and experience yourself, not just to prove it can overcome your circumstances and create your future but also because I’m sure you know - at least subconsciously - life a gift that you love. So keep on dreaming and keep moving forward, don’t stop. Keep imagining! Imagination — I am the magi. Imagination sets up your future. So if you reality is not as good as you imagine, imagine yourself feeling extremely good about your reality. The thing is, later you will live the reality you are imagining now. But chances are you will still want to imagine a better one! So be sure to enjoy and appreciate whatever is good now to cultivate the best future. And always keep imagining!

Human beings use muscle tone based seven stage thinking mechanism. The seven stages are, day dreaming, illusion, creativity, stabilization, determination,status alteration and compulsion. Strictly speaking, Day dreaming is the stage of imagination. We can use the seven stage thinking in digital form and consider the first three and a half stage as imagination and the second three and a half stage as reality. Human being are created to be in Reality, like any other animal. However, it is the ability to imagine that has made him to be at the top of animal kingdom.

When you’re young, you will tend to be obsessed with success, finding an identity, worrying about the future, and even compulsively complaining about the past. Sometime we can get wrapped up too much with agendas, and when they don’t pan out exactly as we imagined, that’s when sadness and disappointment pours in. For me, now that I’m older, I focus more on the present than worrying about the future. What you can control is what happens in the now - not tomorrow or the years to follow.

Day dreaming consumes least amount of energy. Illusion of satisfaction and courage enables to bide our time and look for opportunities. Creativity enables us to have unlimited new opportunities. The first half of Stabilization enables us to make the new idea compatible with half of the ideas. If we convert an idea directly into an action we have to consider all the seven stages to be imaginary because none of these stages can convert an idea into an action. Thus, if we are always be in the real world then we have to learn everything by trial and error method only. Activities of our life will not be compatible among themselves. Life keeps on changing eternally. Imagination by itself can’t provide any of our basic needs.

Thus, ideally we must use the seven stage thinking, which we call god, in which transition occurs from imagination to reality in seven stages. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Other times it’s pretty much the same. It depends on whether your imagination is utopic, dystopic or realistic. Most of us experience all three variations, depending on our mood each time. On the other hand, regardless of how fictional the images of your imagination are, your experience of them is still real. Your feelings are real. So, imagination has an effect on reality, even if what you imagine is never going to happen. Imagining positive things is worth the effort, I guess often.

I would like to ask you one. Can one compare a beautiful lake with a beautiful garden? Well one cannot, because they are two totally different things.that is the same with reality and imagination,imagination can become reality but reality cannot become imagination,it has to be altered in order to do it… they are like the sides of a coin,both different,but still equally important..Imagination becomes reality,which indirectly means that imagination is reality at some point of time,man imagined the wheel and after some time it became reality,man imagined god, it became real…and according to mathematical principles things which are equal cannot be more or less than each other. Cheers!