I - Imagination

You have no idea how many times I started writing this post, realized I wasn't saying what I wanted to say exactly how I wanted to say it, so deleted the whole thing only to start again. What I am finding is that imagination is a hard thing to explain. I tried starting this post by listing all of the many books, art works, movies, music, and ideas that have come through imagination, however, that list was proving to be something of a novel, and I felt that it wasn't quite getting my point across. My next thought was to try and explain to you the role my imagination has played in my life. Being the only child at home for about ten years, I quickly learned that the best way out a boring or lonely situation was to imagine that my circumstances were different. I have created many different lives for myself in my mind, however, trying to explain them made me sound more mental than imaginative, so they were deleted. After that, I thought about my writing. Over the course of my short life, I have come up with hundreds of story ideas, and have begun to write down many of them. The problem with starting my post with that information was that I did not want to post any of my writings here, so telling you that I like to write seemed a little pointless.

So here I sit, with a head full of imaginative thoughts, and no way to expresses them in a blog post. Then again, I guess the point of this is not to tell of my imagination, but to tell of my appreciation for it. Now that is something I can do.

As I mentioned earlier, my imagination was something I used to escape from my only-child syndrome. For many years it filled the void left by my lack of siblings, and for that I am grateful.

I do not think that I could write about imagination without mentioning the wonderful things we have because of it. Someone had to imagine the story of love-struck Romeo and Juliet, and where would we be had Edison not imagined a better source of light? Artists, musicians, authors, dancers, scientists, architects, mothers, the list goes on and on. So many things that require imagination, and I am so glad that they do.

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