Imagination, life is your creation!

The best part about childhood is you can spend countless number of hours doing just absolutely nothing. Go on endless missions with your dog, watch a spider build its web from scratch all day, play with the tea set all afternoon, pretend shoot G.I.Joe Vs Superman, climb trees, run wild in the playground…. 

Now, as grownups, when was the last time you took time off to do just nothing at all?

I miss staring at the starry night sky, trying to spot constellations and sometimes making up some of my own or watch cloud fluffs turn from a rabbit into a crocodile to a pony to a teddy bear head to a heart and on, till dusk. I can’t remember the last time I did either but I feel the reason that we can’t really create something new as grownups is our lack of imagination. Now before you laugh at me for quoting Barbie in my title, I want you to take a second and think about what Barbie said (more like what AQUA said, *you can brush my hair and dress me anywhere. Imagination, life is your creation*). Now Barbie is no Plato, but that was some deep s***. In life, unless you use imagination, you can’t really create something that you can call your own. A better person to quote at this point would be Sir Albert Einstein who said “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” 

There is nothing that we do in our daily lives that triggers our imagination any more. In the beginning of the academic session, when there weren’t too many projects lined up, I came up with the silliest most fun way to keep a class occupied in their free period. Remember ink blot? You’d know this if you spent your school life using ink pens because your teacher insisted your hand writing gets better with it(even if it make you the slowest writer in the world). Class 7 Math, Chapter 11 –a lesson about symmetry.  What better way to teach it than with just a drop of ink? Drop some ink, fold the paper, smudge it in different angles and you have a… Bird! (or a bell?) The way one perceives a picture is not necessarily how some else would see it. The Rorschach’s ink blot test uses this very property to analyze psychological interpretation and detect underlying thought disorders.  But we used it purely for fun.

Next time you are at your work desk and have an ink pot lying around, trigger your imagination!