Asyouwish 2/22

Does reality actually outstrip fiction?

I really like what ashlayla had to say about this question. She stated that, “fiction is more desirable than reality because we can’t lose ourselves in reality” but that, “we can lose ourselves in the fictional worlds”. I personally had not really looked at it from that point of view. Like Ashlayla I was originally a believer in reality outstripping fiction because reality is personal experience. In reality the pain that is affecting us is real. If someone we love dies, they are not coming back to life, they are truly gone. In a movie however if the character dies, they are only dead in the script but not in actuality. I guess it really depends how one looks at the word outstrip. In this question, outstrip obviously means to achieve more and thus in my opinion one cannot chose which achieves more. As I stated before, the pain reality causes affects us more because it is actually occurring, not just being shown to us. We truly experience things in reality and yet through fiction we are able to experience things through the voices and creativity of others that we ourselves might not have the chance to see or view in reality. Fiction allows us to experience and see things that are impossibly to view in our world. Through animation and manipulation of characters and scenes in movies, directors are able to create a world more interesting than the one we truly live in. I was watching Alvin and the Chipmunks the other day and after watching the film my friends and I had a silly conversation about how cool it would be if animals could really talk. We wondered what they would say. Take even Harry Potter, personally I have always wished there was such a thing as magic, to be able to make things happen with a flick of one’s wand. Fiction gives us another realm to imagine. Most of my favorite books are works of fiction and I suppose it is for this reason that Ashlayla was discussing about it being an escape from our world. The ability to read a story about a magically kingdom far away relieves our stress and transports our minds to a far away land. Fictional movies and books portray talking animals, magically objects and people, extraordinary inventions and situations; which would be highly unlikely to occur in reality. In this aspect fiction does achieve more and yet as I argued before reality has the luxury of experience of things actually happening to you and thus includes your mistakes, your triumphs, your love. You as a person are attached and connected more to reality than fiction but in the fictional world there are more possibilities. I realize I have not chosen a side in my argument and that is because in my opinion one cannot, both are very different in the way they achieve, one is personal achievement and experience and the other is through a realm of imagination and wishing.