Let's Pretend Category: Life
Exactly what is pretend, make-believe, play-acting? What is it for and does it come natural or do we teach it to our children. Why do human's pretend? What kind of defense mechanism is it. For I really believe it must be just that. If life involves you fully why pretend at anything; there would be no time or room for it. I guess pretending when you are a child is a way of learning; a way of taking the information you are absorbing and sorting it out. Yet that same learning mechanism in children can become a defense mechanism in adults. Sure adults pretend or play-act at times for entertainment but also to hide what is the reality of their life. The evolvement of the human brain has made us incapable of being satisfied with the day to day existence of survival. We are always seeking more and are not always sure what that more is. Thus we pretend. We pretend to know what we are doing. We pretend to know what we want. We pretend to be satisfied and happy. We pretend that anything matters at all. When all along the reality of life is basic. Eat, sleep , and other bodily functions and everything else is there to support those basics. We are just beings being born, growing, and dying. Nothing really matters; it is just existence. So we will pretend it matters then maybe it will. We will pretend to know and then maybe we will. We will pretend to be complete and maybe the emptyness will leave us alone. I don't really know; after all I am only pretending