Do two people who are too similarly inclined set for disappointment when they are both living in fantasy?
Oh No! => lyrics talk about how TV made us how to feel, so reality doesn't feel alive as much anymore =>. this living in the head has been amazing and fun for dreaming and envisioning. this is how I got into more tv, more movies, more crazy plots, more crazy twists. I feel more and more detached from such feelings. => what's the point? basically, I want to live more vicariously through myself. TV has made me desire for things that are only encapsulated in movies. And it shapes how you see the world, the lens you see places and people through — that's imagination. Through imagination, that's how we humans can make things happen — by shooting high for the fantasy that we want happened.
But I'm wondering: is it better to try to live closer to reality, rather than still dream of certain great loves to occur? Or should this be something you don't dream of, something you want tied down to how things are in reality?
The thing is — dreams are important. But they are hard and effortful to acquire. It comes with tradeoffs with the real world to achieve. There are costs and consequences that you trade with the present reality to achieve some dreams. For example, time will be a definite sunk cost. It's important to be completely, radically grounded in reality if you are to successfully achieve such dreams. It's crucial to both accept reality but also dream high for what you want at the same time.
It requires playing out both ends of the swing well. This balancing of two extremes is present everywhere in our world. The left political party vs. the right. The spectrum of introversion to extroversion. Exploit vs. explore. Life is serious and consequential, but also it's tiny and meaningless at the scale of the universe. Stock market rising and falling in value. Things are binary everywhere, but a balanced life demands a delicate and diligent skill of sustaining such dichotomy at all times.
And that is the point: you don't have to pick a side. Nor do you want to. Everything coexists in the same place, and you have to live with the conflicting thoughts and emotions — even inside your mind. This is also the leading evidence in quantum where a qubit exists in two spins at the same time, especially when you try to measure them.
Sensations...
The song “Oh No!" from Marina and the Diamonds has been a favorite of mine since childhood. I remember recalling a sort of sensational feeling, experiencing something completely new, obscure, and both curious and stranged out by this completely new set of sounds that excited me as a kid. It was sensational; the dynamic beat and slightly distorting combination of the electronic slaps electrified me into this whole new world of the artist's craft. It was electrifying, and I didn't quite know what to do with this new sensation.
When I listen back to the song again now, I sometimes recall back to how I've felt when I first heard it. By now I've heard hundreds of millions of new songs since then, and it almost feels like I would never experience something completely new like this again. I get a glimpse of that sensation when I recall the first time I've heard it, but I don't get this certain excitement with new tracks as vividly anymore. It's almost as if I've heard and experienced all sorts of sounds now.
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