Fantasy to Me

To me, fantasy is everything my life isn't.  It allows me to escape, to dream, to believe.  My favorite books, the Harry Potter series, are a wonderful example of fantasy.  What is true for them is true for many other children's fantasies.  After I get up from a few hours of reading, I feel like I am still in the book, part of the plot.  Nothing else matters to me but finding Lord Voldermort during those few hours.  Other books similar in genre also allow me to paint my own pictures.  The author gives me guidelines, but because the things in these books aren't real, I am free to design them however I want.  Before today, I didn't realize how much I enjoyed reading works of fantasy.  Tuck Everlasting, Charlotte's Web, and The Hobbit all fit under this category, yet they are all so different.  Every one of them I love, though.  My mind wonders through page after page of descriptions of things I know don't really exist, yet while I'm reading they are the most real thing in my world.  At that moment, they are the only things in my world.