The key to a successful life is to embrace reality. Constructed worlds are a form of kryptonite – draining us of our life force and leaving us addicted to jam instead of fruit.

Does anyone else feel similarly?

https://notes.lauraevans.io/permanent/Prefer+reality+to+constructed+worlds

Research @ Atomic | @astorventures, @mohrdavidow, @kernel0x, cs @harvard

I understand what you're trying to say, but I think it's too harsh an assessment and would benefit from a more balanced perspective. The comparison to kryptonite is overly cynical in my view, and I don't think the jam-fruit metaphor you're making is doing what you want it to.

If I go to the park right now and sit down to read Romeo and Juliet, is that somehow deleterious, because I'm not the one falling in love and experiencing the turmoil in reality? Their world is constructed/fictional, yet I see immersing myself in it as enriching, not draining.