reality vs fantasy...

We live in a time when it's easy to leave the real world and switch over to some fantasy life at the click of a button. I mean think about it. Between video games, movies, music, and tv it's easy to turn one on, maybe even two, and escape to a different life for a while. Maybe that's why we like entertainment so much. We can be that star player on a sport team. We can be the girl that every guy dreams of. I think most of all, when we tune into someone else's fantasy life, we imagine we can be enough.

At this point you're probably like wow, this girl takes her movies way too seriously but think for a minute. When you engage yourself in some sort of entertainment, you're usually watching or (in the case of video games at least) even pretending to have someone else's life. Whether you admit it or not, whether you even realize it or not, chances are you're putting yourself in that person's shoes. When they have a problem you feel for them. When something goes their way, you're excited for them.

But how much of that do we carry into real life? I mean, reality's not like the movies. There's no cute moment when boy and girl meet. He usually doesn't have some cute line that will make her swoon and make out with him on the spot. He doesn't have the script that tells him she won't reject him. The fact is, we're human. We all screw up...sometimes a lot. We don't always say the right thing or even everything we wanted to say. We don't always do the right thing either. But that doesn't mean we can't try.

Like I said earlier, when we pretend to be these other people we usually feel like we're enough. I think in real life a lot of people feel they aren't enough. They think that once they're treated like the people in their games or their tv shows are treated, that's how they'll know they're enough for someone. But the truth is, you're already enough. I'm already enough. I don't need to change. And really, it's not my job to complete anyone. That's God's business. And I can't look to people to complete me. Because being enough doesn't mean completing others, it just means being all you can be for them and letting them do the rest.