Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

When we talk about fiction, we talk about a world that doesn't exist. A reality outside of our own. When writer's publish fiction books, they are creating another world where they in control of the events and actions that take place within the story. We create fiction when we want to change the way things are in our own lives. Within our fictional creations we see the world the way we want things to be.

We see our own perfect utopia, yet we can never experience it because it is not real but a spawn of our imaginations.

Even from before we are born, our parents are creating a fiction of us. By coming up with names for their child, they are attributing those names to characteristics to that name they come up with. From boys names and girls names to names that evoke strength or names that point towards artistic interests. Even names that represent cultural influence make us fictions of our own parents worlds. They create us so that they may see the world they want through the lives of their children.

Throughout our childhood, our parents shape and create our personalities in attempts to create a fiction of who they want us to become. From buying our clothes to teaching us morals and ethics, they shape our individuality from the day we are born.

However as we grow older and are introduced to the media and we see the rest of the world, we start to separate what our own personal desires are as well as what we choose to no longer include in our lives. The new people we meet in the world become important us and our feeling of being accepted into the fiction world our parents have tried to create.

Furthermore, as we spend more and more time with our new found friends we realize that the fictional world and character our parents had tried to mold us into were completely wrong and nothing like what we had grown up to know. We've learned our own habits, developed our own interests and realized we didn't agree with everything our parents told us.

We do our best to fit in with everyone else. We keep up with latest trends and styles, while taking advice and ideas of our close friends. We do everything we can to be like everyone else while still attempting to remain our own unique individual. Our desire to fit in is sub conscience because although we don't seem to realize it, but it's our parents that push us to belong in a group of those that share similar interests and tastes that their child might have chemistry with.

As we grow older however, we find ways to create a balance. The fictional life our parents have made no longer exists. In it's place is the fictional life we ourselves have created through our life experiences. Spending time with our friends, learning new things and falling in love are but three of the endless influences we run into. We must also not forget the dark moments in our live as they also help strengthen us and help us appreciate the things we do have. They also remind us that our life isn't perfect and that ever fiction is flawed. The greatest solution is to do be yourself and to love yourself before others can love you.

- Francis Frustration