Foolishness.

[ladybug_archive]

Sometimes I get way too wrapped up in certain shows. There was a time when I actually wanted to be a Sailor Senshi (of course at the same time knowing they don't exist). It seemed fun and glamorous. I was finally pulled back to Earth by reading a friend's post where he was musing how they had no lives to themselves and had to jump up at a moment's notice to fight horrible monsters and evil people and eventually, realistically, they would likely burn out.

But I'm having the same sort of thing happen again, thinking it would be fun to be in the Batman world and/or if there were really similar things going on in the real world/vigilantes like Batman/etc. Yet at the same time, I know it wouldn't be fun at all; people would live in terror of the next horrific scheme of the Joker's or the next bizarre experiment by Dr. Langstrom or Scarecrow or Hugo Strange.

I watch Batman and Robin and Batgirl swinging on buildings with their Bathooks and it looks fun and exciting, but I know in reality I would be utterly terrified. And in reality, I doubt such feats as theirs could even be performed safely.

I would make a horrible vigilante and it would be absolutely horrifying if supervillains really existed.

But ... I still think it would be fun to visit Gotham, or fun if there was really a Batman, or fun to help him stop at least one crime, etc.

I suppose a lot of kids have fantasized with those types of thoughts. But I'm an adult; I should know better.

I am hopeless.

Comments

[northeastwind.livejournal.com]

I think it's okay as long as you really do know it wouldn't actually be great-- you can't really outgrow wanting to have an exciting life or meet people you like or be glamorous and heroic, and wanting your favorite shows to be real is just a part of that. THAT part has nothing to do with how old you are-- it's the whole actually believing it would be better part that should be specific to kids, who tend to only see one side of things.

And yes, I dream of being a high-flying superhero, but even ignoring the whole dangerous villains thing I'm afraid of heights, so that would inevitably not end well. I'd say that's at least as silly as anything you feel. XD;

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

That's a good way to analyze it. :) Thanks.

LOL. Yeah, I'm terrified of heights too, and would probably be motion-sick even if I didn't go into a panic-stricken hysteria.

I seem to have two different, yet intertwined, fantasies: I wish that our little town had a Batman, I was his Batgirl, and we caught the criminals here in this little area. Although we don't have a lot of crime, so I wouldn't actually want it to become like Gotham City! And then I fantasize about Gotham itself being real and all the characters, etc. Generally The Batman versions of Gotham/the characters.