As different as a seed and a tree they may seem, yet only one single characteristic is the only differentiator they possess in union.
Visualization and Realization are both states of mind inwhere one understands the truth in it's purest form.
Both come with wisdom that otherwise would have been never revealed.
Both present itself, when one provides enough effort.
Both are oftentimes the only solution to the question they emerge from, need be one has the sight enough to see what one is searching for.
Visualization makes certain things easier to understand before one could jump to a conclusion.
Realization takes place after the mean moment, and runs parallel to visualization however differ with prior only by the variable of time.
The variable of time, the only thing that make a man who you deem successful and the one person who you even don't know does exist, is that the first has visualization, he is ahead in time with respect to other, to whome after the golden hours are over realization hits hard as "a rock from the core of earth".
Time makes a person lose and let others win. In my terms,i recall Visualization as early Realization, and Realization an late Visualization .
If one would had VISUALIZED what was about to come,you may have tackled the obstacles in a better way possible than you did, and what you did would make you REALIZE the wrongs.
Both promise a lesson however it's you who needs to choose.
To have what you need or spent entirety of your life in regret worth pitty, for timely pleasure.