Fearsome scaly dragons, breathing plumes of deadly fire, elusive romping unicorns, tossing manes of pure silver and dwarfed leprechauns dragging along cauldrons of gold – All of these extraordinary creatures reign in a parallel dimension and are figments of human imagination.
The human mind is a queer organ; it is capable of endless possibilities. It can think of ways to conjure up a cure for cancer or break down matter into its smallest particle.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the mind is its capacity to imagine, handle abstract ideas and conjure up unreal images.
It is one thing to manipulate information already laid before us. But to dream of better and brighter things is absolutely astounding.
The recent Disney animation flick, Up, took the world by storm with its ludicrous idea of an aged man, complete with walker, embarking on an adventure of a lifetime by ‘flying’ his house with a colossal amount of balloons attached to it. Aboard his airborne house, he wished to travel to a certain ‘Paradise Falls’ (as do we all!) and perch his house on the precipice of a waterfall.
If that wasn’t enough, the movie ropes in talking dogs, an exotic bird and a mad explorer.
The power of imagination is indeed infinite.
As kids, it seemed so easy to believe in fairies and pixie dust; to cease to care about scientific foundations.
As we grow older, we tend to forget how to be kids, we tend to forget to imagine.
From a world painted vividly with bizarre colours, filled with biologically impossible beings and secret made-up languages, it has faded into mere black and white, with facts and figures holding more important.
There was a time when we all believed that a certain fat red man filled our stockings with presents on Christmas Eve and that babies were delivered by incredibly strong storks. The possibilities were unlimited and so were the questions that we had to ask.
But now, we silently accept the world as it is. I can only conclude that as we grow older, we seem to think less.
It is a pity since with human intelligence and imagination, man could work miracles and wonders.
And no doubt invent the ‘hovercrafts of the future’ that were once promised to us!
However, Imagination is much more than just goblins and elves– It is about thinking out of the box, creating something where nothing existed before, building empires with just ingenuity and bubbling creativity.
Imagination is about passion, wanting to widen the horizons further, believing in things that only the heart can see.
Like George Bernard Shaw said, “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
Sometimes believing is more than just seeing.
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