Mysteries

I was in a race one time, one that I could have won if I had followed the right strategy, because being the fastest is not enough when your competition (if any) is just as fast.  I didn't win, I'm still not sure why, I might have been too fast when I should have slowed down, or too slow when I should have speeded up, the strategy failed me, I hadn't followed it or completely forgot about it.

There are fantasy worlds created by writers of fantasy and science-fiction novels that you as a reader would like to visit or move to permanently.  And there are worlds created by writers of mainstream, realistic fiction that work in a similar way on one's imagination,  and while lacking the recognizable fantastic elements of those other genres,  when you think about it, they are these worlds as much fantasy as the others.  Not even journalism can relate a truly realistic picture of the world.  And then, there are the worlds of folk fantasies, and I'm talking about modern folk fantasies, those invented usually by city bound folks who serve us various private theories when unexplainable events happen.  Some of them are paranoid conspiracy theories, others vivid reflections of their creators' cheap reading and movie viewing habits, and most suggest a world controlled by some dark forces, a world you wouldn't want to visit or to move to live permanently.

Other people's craziness, mental and emotional states, issues and problems tend to be perfectly clear to us, with perfect and obvious solutions, only if we ourselves have gone through them and managed to resolve them for better or worse.  Otherwise, they are incomprehensible mysteries.