What is this place of magic?

The world feels sadder than it could be. I dont want to harken back to the "good old days", nor do i want to predict the future (yet at least), but i know the world can be better. and im not blaming ipad kids or influencers or billionares but. something has to change. Hell the world is steeped in so much crap that you dont know what im talking about, hell I dont even know what im talking about. Let me explain.

Everyone on social media complaining about everything every 5 seconds. Everyone being overworked. Everyone judging everyone for being overworked. Calm down. No reason to stress. Its just The Despair, youll get used to it. Its just the hopelessness. Everyone gets it. The people who i called gods in my personal life and beyond are being abused or too tired or screaming at each other. The god damn truth that I held dearest to be since I was a kid, that good will win at in the end is being testead constantly. This is what im talking about.

As much as I could be, im not talking about the world at large. Im not saying it dosent have a part to play in all of this, but to be honest, im writing this selfishly. Im writing this as a reaction to everyone in my family, both found and blood struggiling. I'm not expecting sunshine and rainbows every second but no matter what disability you have, how you were born, how much money you have, any of that-living should not be suffering. I am not saying everyone I know is an edgelord, but i am saying that so many of them in pain.

So now what? Everyone suffers forever the end? No. Because just because the truth that good will win in the end that I was told as a kid is tested, dosent mean its wrong. It is never too late to be happy. I can tell you a million ways to be happy, give you self help reccomendations, give the advice that every other youtuber gives. Or I can tell you to go back. Go back to when you were a kid. Play pretend. and make it real.

Ok, a couple disclaimers before we continue, 1. this is not the only way to get out of this Suffering. there are as many ways to escape this as there are people on this planet, and genuinley, any way you get out of it is commendable. 2. I have not implimented this. Fully at least. I have created a community with this spirit called alterreality (Discord link here) but I have yet to take it to the place where i want it in my own life. Where instead of pretend and imagination being an escape from the world, it is just. the world. With those disclaimers out of the way, how the hell does this work?

Step 1 is easy. Most people start doing it when they are a kid, and at a certain point just. stop. Play pretend. You can pretend you are anything a superhero, a pirate captain, a dragon, hell that warriors cat rp that you did when you were a kid? That is what im talking about here. Be unabashedly you without shame by going beyond the persona you play in this human life. Just look at all the chunnibyou characters in media. Rikka Takanashi, Gundham Tanaka, hell Buzz freaking Lightyear- they get it! They get that the only way to combat the mundane drudge of the world is to be the exact opposite.

. Now its time for step two. The one that I struggle with more than anyone. Making it real. Turning "play pretend" into something that consumes everything. Just like the slog of mundanity seems to consume everyones every waking moment, let your pretend be louder! let your pretend be something that liberates you from the despair of the world. This is the goal. For me at least. I guess the problem that I dont have any advice for is it seems like everyone and their moms are insisting that this despair is the way to be, and they engage with us as if we are-should be living in it! I dont want to point any fingers, this judgement is the thing that i hate more than anything, but maybe, if there are more of us who chose pretend, the fingers will turn into embraces

This is not an essay trying to explain any concepts. Hell its really nothing more than me spilling words out onto a page, with a hope that someone will relate but-it is also a manifesto. A manifesto that screams to the fucking rooftops that we dont need to live in the reality that has been set out for us, that we can carve our own based on our imagination! And im not talking about some instagram influencer get rich quick scheme im talking about all of us going back to when we were kids, going back to waking up every day excited hyped up like the feeling you get when the next episode of your favorite show is about to drop because your life is your favorite show. Im talking about living in guilds instead of suburbs, office spaces becoming the bridges of the enterprise, every peice of design worked around building a story that may not be objectivley real but god damnit is it fun! and thats what this website is. a testament to how our lives should be designed like disney world. A look into a more whimsical world. a Manifesto For Imagination.