Daydreaming

Here's the thing. I daydream. Ow wow, Peachie, really? No one would have guessed from the title of this post! No, really. Only problem? I daydream way to much. I can turn pretty much any activity into the perfect spot to daydream. I daydream watching movies and tv shows, I daydream reading books, talking to friends, doing homework, family dinners, and basically everything. I just daydream.

I know. Who cares? I don't. Except now I do now that I can't even talk about characters in books. I imagine myself into the book so often that I feel like talking about them is like backstabbing a friend. But books are my friend. I can fall into a world where the pain isn't my own, and I don't have to think about tests coming up or how some of my real friends are fighting and trying to get me to pick a side. Its a battle that I can watch from the sidelines. And if I don't like an ending? Well then later that night, when I'm laying in bed, I imagine myself into the story and fix it to how I want it to end. I create my own characters, change the story, change the setting, make a new world, fix the names, add in friends and family, and then I have my own. I have my own story that doesn't even begin to resemble the one it came from. No one would make the connection.

And now I wonder. Is this normal? Do people take their favorite character from a book or show and make a new little story for them? Not like a fan fiction. Or maybe exactly like that. But I don't think that's what I'm doing. I take that piece of clay that became a story and I mold it into something completely new. It isn't a caterpillar into a butterfly. No. Its a bunny into a tiger. Its a table into a chair. The ties they have to each other are not close enough to be a fan fiction, and not nearly as love-story enough. So that makes me wonder... have stories been written in this way?

Stories are imaginations given to others. You see the inner daydream of another. You live through their daily blank stare. So does that mean that daydreams are just the stories we wanted all to ourselves? Does that mean that we are being greedy? I hope not. Because then I'd be the most greedy of them all.