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Imagination!
by Cynthia G. McCaffrey
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I remember when I was a little girl, my Mother would tell me stories she had made up herself. I remember how the world she would create for me came alive and filled me with an almost mystical feeling. I still get this feeling when I read a great book or I watch movies like 'Drop Dead Fred' or 'Hook'. Somehow, through all these years, I have managed to keep my magical world of imagination alive in me.
Those who share my life with me don't seem to have too much of a problem dealing with my slightly off the wall ways. I try very hard to be considerate towards all of them. And I still have to tolerate the occasional ribbing over believing in Never, Never Land. But I wouldn't give up my world for anything.
Whenever I feel as if the entire world is closing in on me, I can turn to my magic places and go there for a little while. I always come back a much happier grown-up, able to look at things in a different perspective. Often able to come to some conclusion to a problem I was having because my mind had cleared.
I have my Mother to thank for this gift. I will always be grateful that I was lucky enough to be able to tell her how I felt before she passed away. Today I tell my Grandchildren stories I have made up for them. Sometimes I can feel Mom smiling across the room at me as I make up a particularly good story for the little ones.
I love to spend many wonderful hours taking them to all my magical places, introducing them to Santa and Peter Pan, the Easter Bunny. I have my three-year-old Grandson Russ convinced 'Drop Dead Fred' is a close friend of mine.
I really get a kick out of the looks I get from the adults when I don't hesitate to flop down on the floor and actually play with my Grandbabies.
The other day my little Russ was 'Tom Sawyer'. He had his little camping gear on his back, his little man canteen hanging off his belt. And off he went. Heading down some imaginary trail. His lantern was turned on, lighting his path down the hallway. His little lantern makes nice loud cricket noises. It was a magical moment for him as well as I. A moment I can't even begin to try to put it into words.
Experiencing that moment and many more has been a wonderful gift for me. Through eyes that are allowed to see into a child's world I have found so many precious things. This often makes me wonder what happens to those of us who lose the magic. Can they find it again? I think perhaps they can. If they want to badly enough. Maybe it's like Tinker Bell. You just have to believe!
Anyway I know there are a lot of adults that don't believe any more. It's just a sad fact of life. What really troubles me is the fact that there are so many non-believers. And all these non-believers are raising children of their own. So does that mean that there are many children that aren't being taught about the magic in life? And does that mean we will someday have a world of nothing but non-believers?
Now I'm a far cry from 'Mother Goose' but I can't help but feel saddened by this situation. There will be no more need for imagination. It will all be cut and dry. A very cold indifferent world if you ask me!
If this comes to be we will have no more great inventions! It has taken a lot of imagination to come up with all the high tech stuff we have today.
With out imagination we will have no curiosity. There will be far fewer discoveries. Curiosity is what makes us to want to see what is on the other side of the universe. Without it we would have never walked on the moon.
Without curiosity we would have no inner drive. For curiosity is behind all driven people. I think we could very easily become lazy without drive. Before we knew it we would all be over weight. Then we would have limited energy.
Without drive and with limited energy we wouldn't really have a lot of get up and go. Soon our children would lose interest in us. Children don't like having to putter along with some over weight adult.
Without interest we would soon find that our children aren't paying attention to us. Our rules would mean nothing to them. Soon we would find the children are all running amuck. Doing things they shouldn't be. Knowing full well we won't have the energy to do a damn thing to stop them.
Without their attention our children will not learn the rules of life. Without rules to follow our children will become restless and unruly. There would be no direction for them to follow.
Without direction we will have shiftless people. I believe there isn't such a thing as a bad or shiftless child! To become such a person you have to have been given no rules to follow. With no rules to follow you will quickly lose all direction in life. This leads to what can turn out to be very bad choices on our children's behalf.
With bad choices I believe we will lose our children. We will lose them to the streets and the con games. To liar's, thieves and drugs. Their generation will no longer know the difference between right and wrong. Power will be the only way of life they will understand.
With power as our Goddess the world will become a cold and calculating place to live in. The one who survives the best will be the one with all the power.
I think that's how that would go!
Now let me summarize!
If you lose your imagination you will lose your curiosity. If curiosity goes out the window your drive will go with it. Hand and hand interest and attention will soon follow. (I think I got that right.)
My perspective tells me that. If you want power you have to be able to imagine what it's like to have it. If you can imagine what it's like to be powerful you will be come curious over what it feels like. Your curiosity over how this feels will give you the drive to try to find out. Because your driven to find out you have to pay attention so you will know the answers when you have them. And I am sure once you have it the power will keep your interest.
This is where I get to finally make my point.
A shiftless, power hungry, gluttonous person is the product of a misguided imagination. This fact alone should tell us it's time we all found a way to believe again.
I think now is the time to teach our children the beauty of having a good imagination. This will give them all the magic there is to experience in this world! I think it's time to believe in Santa and Peter Pan. For if we lose our imagination we will lose the magic! Henceforth no one wins!
If we all end up with no imagination we will wind up as unimaginative (boring), powerless, lumps, that have no drive or even the energy to find out what we wanted in the first place. We'll all be slugging along day by day with no real direction to go in. We will end up simply going in circles until our own unproductivity makes us extinct.
Of course that's just my opinion!
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