Today I thought, "You know what? I'm gonna write a novel, about myself because that's easy." Then I decided I had a blog so I might as well start with that instead. Anyways, I was planning on writing a memoir-ish kind of story/novel thing. Written and dictated by your's truly, The one and only Julianne Nicole Richards. Edit: apparently there are a couple Julianne Richards but ya know...I'm the coolest so there's that. It was going to be titled The life of your Average Person. Not a very clever title I know, but you could probably put it in Latin and people would buy it. But, I was thinking, "What if it included all my day dreams, fantasies and weird thoughts I had throughout my day. To in a sense let people know they aren't alone, unless they're just weird enough that nobody else does that then it'd just be interesting and I'd get famous anyways." Kind of written similarly to "Scrubs" with the day dreams and such. I can't lie, I do that very often. Sometimes the day dreams are great! Sometimes they're sad, or average, or just simply weird. But that's life right? The life of an average person. See, now you're getting it. It makes sense. How often during the day do you sit at work listen to a song and have a sudden day dream, like you're a rockstar, or in a music video, or possibly living life like a movie and you're playlist is the background music, I can't lie, I do the third one a lot. Probably too often, but who cares. For example, today at work, I was listening to Twenty-one Pilots, and I had a little day dream of knowing every word to almost every song (Because I do, they're kinda great) and my brother and I at a concert and dancing and singing. It was a glorious daydream. I loved it. Simple, and happy.
Another example, a couple days ago I was smoking hookah with some friends, and I drew out a steady stream of smoke, and suddenly, I'm a mother-trucking dragon princess. Who's awesome because, dragon princess. And Monday while at DND (yes, nerdy, and wonderful don't hate) I totally imagined my lurker (rouge assassin character) doing the most amazing feats and I could go on and on about my many daydreams. Its not crazy, it life. Because people daydream, if we don't day dream, if we don't have fantasies (mine are of a wide variety from being a dragon princess, to being a savoy con-man) we don't develop or exercise or imagination.
Imagination is a great and totally under utilized source that we have! We can come up with new ideas for books, games, and even science! We need daydreamers. Daydreamers are the best artist, the best writers, the best scientist and mathematicians. They can think and picture things that a lot of people can't. Also, its just simply wonderful and fun. Its always nice to escape into your mind sometimes. And there isn't anything wrong with that.
