As a child I read books, fantasy books, fairy tales and these books made me ask questions. I would write stories, like the one I just told you about what the answers to these questions could be, and these stories made me realize that with the right question you could imagine, create, understand almost anything. This is what fantasy does, fantasy helps us grow, it helps us move forward, our societies cannot evolve without fantasy.
Now when I say fantasy some of you may be thinking of a British wizard with a lightning bolt scar, some of you may think of fantasies simply as something that isn’t real or that can’t come true.
Fantasy seems relevant to some entertaining to many but not important by any means.
Fantasy was at one point no different than a story if we look back.
If we look back and indeed the farther we look back the truer this becomes we realized that fantasy has always been deeply ingrained in the human experience whenever our earliest civilizations wanted to teach to understand to explore.
Our societies cannot evolve without fantasy and that evolution begins with our imagination, with our ability to ask the question what if and maybe your answer your story begins with once upon a time.
