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We have no tiredness and our day never ends. We have

               boundless energy. We have an uncluttered imagination.

               We can create our world to enable us to continue our

               happy pursuits. We have a greater clarity as to satisfying

               our needs. We know that we have survived death (often

               our greatest mortal fear). Are you getting an idea of our

               world? We want to share this happiness with you but if

               you reject our suggestions as being too fantastic then you

               cannot share. Fantasy is easy to destroy. You just stop

               believing  and  it’s  gone.  This  is  why  there  are  more
               pessimistic people. This is why there so many depressed


               people.  They  suffer  the  sense  of  hopelessness  that  is
               fuelled  by  the  lack  of  fantasy.  Children  see  so  many

               possibilities  for  their  own  futures  provided  they  are

               allowed  by  the  adult  to  fantasise.  How  often  their

               dreams  are  crushed  by  the  disillusioned  adult  telling

               them that the fantasy they are engaged in is not part of

               the real world. Yet the world we live in is the real world

               and is a world of fantasy. Is it not possible that the child
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