It can be a distraction. It can take us away from dark or painful moments. It can help us to dream too. And to imagine things becoming better.

When we place ourselves, by the power of imagination In Another World, we demonstrate our capacity and potential as humans. A capacity and potential that has made us the peoples and the cultures that we are today.

But sometimes that dream world is simply a way of avoiding and dealing with now. In my personal experience, more often than not, it’s been a way of avoiding now.

So I’m finding it more helpful to keep those dreams of other worlds and distant planets quite vague. Less of an immediate escape. More a general direction for travel.

I try to merely glance up and see other landscapes and other possibilities. Things that move my heart and cause me to want to move.

And then I return to now and give all my attention to the next step. One that will take me in roughly the right direction.

There’s always a distance between There and Here.

But the truth is that we are always, and always will be, only and forever, Here.