Last week, I attended Rose Cafe, where GRF Sara began to share with us her PhD studies in Romance and Fantasy. She described Romance, not as a term that people use to describe their intimate relationships with each other, but more of a relationship with hardships. Specifically, those that were in the medieval times. When she inevitably brought up fantasy, all I could begin thinking about were the various books or movies that I would read or watch that allowed my imagination to go wild. Especially, when I read a book I felt like I could really visualize the situations that were happening and always had questions. Usually, these questions were about why characters could not do something a different way or why they were treated a certain way. Like I mentioned earlier, fantasy just allows one to let their mind roam free and untamed. It reminds me of nostalgia.

Enjoying something that does that for you creates a feeling that is called nostalgia. Nostalgia brings us now busy college students a longing for the simplistic times. To be completely honest I feel that there is nothing wrong with that. Of course, as long as this longing does not consume us but instead motivates us to continue to work hard because simpler times will be ahead.