The Importance of Imagination
posted February 12, 2008 - 2:59pmImagination helps us to see our goals. In the world today we believe that if you can dream it, you can be it. This is our imagination at work, once you have a picture in your mind about what you want, you can plan for it.
When I was
a child I had a great imagination. But don’t all children?
From playing sword fights with your brother pretending to be pirates, to wanting to be a Jedi so bad you believed the plastic cone you just bought really was a light-saber.Did someone take away that imagination from within you? Did you ever really stop dreaming? Well without a dream, your future can be no more. Bring your imagination back out and i will share with you how to make your dreams real.
Think back to when you were a child, It's October and Halloween is just around the corner. Why do children get so excited about Halloween? Why do children like to play around and pretend they are something they aren’t ? Is it important for parents and guardians to encourage this creative mind? As Our world is becoming more fast paced every day, and our kids are flowing along in this current of School, homework, music, TV, games, internet.
It sometimes seems like every minute time is taken up with an activity. Or just sitting still watching into the distance and letting their imagination create something beautiful.Imagination is a strange thing, sometimes it is almost like a universal language, and sometimes someone’s imagination can be so unique and unlike others.
If you were to gather 10 people from every country in the entire world and show them different images. Then ask them to write down what each of the images means to them, the general idea would be the same. But if you asked them to write a short story based on one of the images. They would all be different.
Some of the worlds greatest writers, write about things the other would not even think about. Stephen King, James Patterson, J.K Rowling, J.R.R Tolkien. They all have brilliant imagination, but there mindsets are all unique.
But where is the popular media world leading us? Now its all about computer games, they are extremely graphical, leaving little work for the imagination . TV and movies work hard to include every detail and hide the fact that they are on sets or stages, again stopping the imagination to run free. I m not saying that these media forms are bad; graphical games are a lot better than simpler ones and Television and movies are very good in giving you the idea quickly and telling stories. But should these newer forms of media, while good in there own right, come to replace older forms which meant more activity for your mind? Letting more thought be required than letting something else think for you?
Even though all of the technology that we enjoy today, be it computers, transport, medical, or whatever, existed before as a glimmer in someone's mind, brought into the real world through their imagination. Games and stories and other forms of entertainment are not the only ways by which we can use our imagination ,but we should be concerned to see these imagination-enhancing activities simply go silent, pushed away by the newer, "better" activities. People enjoyed reading, listening to radio shows, watching plays, and playing board games not too long ago; I do not believe that people have changed so much in a few decades that they cannot enjoy them still.
Now try to think what the world would be like without imagination? What colour would be left? We would be living in a black and white world with no dreams or aspirations. Children would be living like adults and adults would be wishing they had never see the first light of day.
It’s a corner stone of life, but no one ever thinks of its effects. We need to feel, like we are going somewhere. That there is something better out there than what we are doing.
Without imagination the world would be a waste , the thoughts we would have would be a waste of thoughts.
As Marianne Williamson Said :
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
If you do not realise the necessity for imagination now, then soon enough your life will change, it will not have that full sense of happiness. Understand how to use your imagination correctly and putting it into use will put you on the way to finding true happiness and satisfaction. This Happiness will inspire others around you.

Comments
I so agree with you...
My imagination is what sustains me. I'd be brain(soul)dead without it.
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