To love, or not to love fantasy

[Cúdae]

A certain kind of person? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps the type of person needed to truly love fantasy is the type of person who has a mind open to other things, unintentional and intentional allegories, and fantastical non-existence all presented to them in a compliocated world of only imagination. If a person can't handle even one bit of that, they may enjoy fanatsy, but not love it.

Or maybe, it has something to do with a person's real life. Personally, the worlds in the fantasy genre are an escape from the world I know. I don't like thinking about the possibilities of war so I retreat into some obscure book of the fantasy genre to take my mind off the real world. Maybe another person does not want to think about, say, a his dying cat. So he finds a fantasy book and lets himself wander in its world to escape what is weighing on his mind.

Maybe it has something to do with a person's past, with the way he was raised. If someone was grew up in an atmosphere where fantastical notions were strictly not allowed, the person may be inclined to read and enjoy fantasy later on in life.

Or maybe, it is just the people who allow themselves like fantasy that truly love it.

Or maybe it is the people who go to a fantasy book expecting nothing each time and receive everything each time because of that expectation that love fantasy.