In today's day and age many distractions exist from social media to Netflix to trying to determine if the news today is fake or not. But one distraction that has always flourished through time is the art of daydreaming. As an extremely creative person, I find myself daydreaming more than I'm actually participating in reality. My daydreams consist of planning the future with impossible standards, imagining the many things I would do if I owned a house, determining in what order I will complete my projects and how they will turn out, along with a number of other dreams that seem to come to mind on their own.

In fact, I do this so often that most people do not even realize it's happening. I've perfected the art and have trained myself to snap back from fantasy into the actuality of my life. However, though I've mastered this skill, I also am beginning to realize that I'm missing out on reality as I'm lost in my thoughts. I am literally forfeiting my present for an imaginative future that very possibly will never exist. I'm wasting minutes of my one and only life visualizing an existence that will never actually occur.

Now, do not from my tone take my meaning to be that daydreaming is bad. I love daydreaming. For the most part, it rejuvenates and relaxes me. Sometimes, it's disappointing because I know that some of the things I think about couldn't ever actually work in reality. But I still spend most of my time day dreaming when I can get away with it. A couple weeks ago, I did no homework for a week; simply came back to my room after classes, got into my bed, napped and daydreamed the sun into setting. Of course, that choice came back to bite me in the butt as I scrambled to get all of my work done for the next week on that Sunday. What's more relaxing they laying around, imagining your life is exactly as magical and adventurous as anything you could dream up?

But I also recognize that this action is just as wasteful of time as all those distractions mentioned earlier. I spend just as much time of my day scrolling social media as I do daydreaming. I waste minutes, hours, days, of my college career trying to check up on other peoples' dreams and imagining my own than I do actually working to achieve my dreams.

I can't say that this revelation will change my habit. I'm quite set in my ways and oftentimes, I find that I feel I have no control over my fate. But who's to say that maybe I won't crawl into bed one day and think that maybe I could be working towards my dream, rather than just thinking about it? And then I'll do it. Or maybe I won't.