I grew up reading books about King Arthur and Guinevere - so dragons and unicorns have been my jam right alongside dinosaurs (Dr. Seuss (sp?) and that caterpillar book came way later in my childhood) ever since I was really little (I really liked brightly and well detailed pictures that came with the books I couldn't read, obviously, at that age).
Anyways, I grew up not following any religious path, so to speak, and definitely lean more towards science when confronted with the mysteries of the world....
But deep down I hope that we don't have it all figured out, and that there really are dragons (and other mythical creatures) about. And I don't want them to be found, to be measured and quantified, I simply hope they're real so that the magic of dreams and imagination remain strong and real (in my view of things...)
So for example, when I was in cadets in my teens, we'd do an annual hike up to a plane crash site on a glacier on Mt. Ptolemy near where we lived -- and being that high up in the Rockies, everything looks so untouched (aside from the plane crash debris, of course). The boulders are HUGE and at the mercy of only the snow and the rain and the sun and wind. And more than once I could imagine so clearly a drake moving about the rocky terrain. I even convinced myself a few times that certain striations on the bigger boulders were big enough and consistent enough to be claw marks ;D
Also any time I passed horses and there'd be that one that was all white, I'd squint a little and try to see the glimmer of a hidden horn.
There's even a trail to a waterfall I love because it's very lush with ferns and low shrubs and wildflowers....perfect for faeries wink
And yes, I look into the depths of the sea and I really hope there's everything from giant squid, to megalodon to mermaids and true sea serpents that can take down ships xP
So, anyways. I believe - or at least try very hard to, because what's life without a little bit of the magic? The epic? The adventure?
What about you?
