Just think how strange life would be without an imagination.
Unable to picture the past, the future, what could have been, what didn’t happen, what might happen and everything in between.
Now as someone with OCD, I know how dangerous having an imagination can be, how much it can hamper your life, how much it can prevent you from doing and what it can drive you to do.
But I also know that my imagination is one of the things about myself that I value the most. Without it my life would not be what it is today, I would not be the person I am without it and I believe it makes me a better person.
The world today seems to want to limit our imagination. Whether it is through religious control, mass marketing or psuedo-peer pressure, there seems to be a large amount of effort being put in to limit our individual horizons.
Gossip Magazines and preachy TV programs tell us how we should look and what we should eat, the religious organisations of the world tell us that there is only one that is correct (theirs, coincidentally enough) and that nothing else is worth your time, the governments of the world feed us their visions of the how things are via a media that cares not about the consequences of it actions, only about being the first to get the sound bite, the quote, the exclusive footage. We get opinion with our news rather than the facts.
There are people in todays society that under value their imaginations so greatly that they hardly use them. If it’s not on a screen or on a glossy piece of paper then they can’t picture it. There is constantly talk of how this country doesn’t create or invent things anymore, the reason for this is a lack of imagination amongst a populace force fed apathy to keep it quiet.
So why am I going on about this?
I have a challenge for everyone.
Just as you would exercise you muscles, exercise you imagination. Engage it, let it show you what you can do. Because, believe me, given the chance it will blow your mind.
Make toast not war.
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