Wistful Visitation

If I were to go to any place, I would go straight to my house, go up my room and enter the wardrobe. If my allusion didn’t quite inform you specifically, I would like to go to Narnia.

I wish to visit the magical world that lured me to sleep every night during those hot summers with my grandmother. I want to see what the world was like as it was governed by the characters. Narnia is a world that brought color to my eyes and words to my lips. It was what started my desire to place ink on paper.

Now, it may seem like a milk dream; an unachievable goal. After all, isn’t Narnia a fictional place that actually doesn’t exist? Yet, everyone can visualize it in their minds at the mention of the name. You can see the wardrobe, you could see the Ice Queen’s castle, you can see the characters wandering throughout the land. If you can see it, if you can connect it to another object that exists, doesn’t it mean the place exists?

The thing about fantasy worlds within books, you get to travel those lands with the characters and have the adventure with them. You feel their emotions, and then you empathize with them as they struggle throughout their conflicts. In reality, you have lived with them through their adventures, and if this logic applies, I certainly can go and read the books again to go back to those adventures. Yet, how do we bring it to life in our own lives? How can we place a magical place to a part of own mind that shows we’ve been there? Simple, we retell the story.

Whenever someone visits a certain place that creates an impact for them, they tell it. They tell it to their friends, their estranged family, they tell it to all that wish to listen. How many times have you heard someone start a sentence with “I went to” whenever they come back from a trip? To create a place for that fictional world in reality, the only thing someone can do is to write their own land of wonder. You retell the morals, the lessons, the themes you obtained from the fictional land and implement it to your own writing. To retell the story is to teach others those repetitive lessons and engrave it to their skulls of the importance these lessons bring. To bring the same color and life to their eyes and encourage them to continue the lineage.

So, if I were to go anywhere. I wish to go back to Narnia. To go back to the tales and stories that sweetened my heart, and retell them. To continue their great legacy until someone else resumes it in my place when I’m gone.