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Power Of Imagination
By Peace | December 7, 2006
Our ability to think and imagine is something which separates us, humans, from other living things in the world. Being able to think and imagine is the most unique human capacity. Some people regard imagination as worthless dreams which give rise to false hopes or illusions; but imagination is not merely about building castles in the air. Imagination is about seeing and visualizing with your mind’s eye to shape the things which is to come. It is your ability to imagine that people are able to achieve great dreams and accomplished great tasks. With the ability to imagine, great inventions are made possible. Great books are written to inspire millions of people. With the ability to think and imagine, the world is constantly changing.
A person who is imaginative is someone who has great creative powers and insight. His mind is a fertile bedrock for innovative concepts. Everyday, such mind is thinking of ideas. From young children already uses the power of imagination in their play. They imagine themselves to be their action heros, they put on their favourite costumes or even ‘blanket’ and imagine themselves to be Superman or Power Ranger. They talk to imaginary friend when they engaged themselves in their own play. All of us, whether you are a children or adult, imagine who we want to be at some time in our life.
The power of imagination allows us to grow. By imagining what we want to be in the future, we are creating our own destiny when we follow our hearts to what you want. The power of imagination determines our destiny ultimately if you follow your dreams and when you try hard at realising your dreams.
However, most of the time, a lot of people have a lot of ideas. They dare to dreams. They have a lot of dreams. But they are still working as an employee, they are still a mediocre or maybe they are still who they are regardless of how many years are passed. These people who dreams, who have lots of ideas, but they have no courage to step out of their comfort zone, to have any change in their life. They have no courage to face changes and take the first step of change. They fear changes.
Because of imagination, great authors are able to write great novels, fairy tales and stories for people to read. Because of our ability to imagine, we are able to comprehend what the writer is writing and we are able to comprehend any books and appreciate literature and learn science.
However, too much imagination is harmful as well. A person who always feels suspicious of anything (imagine what happen if this happen and what happen if that happen and so on) and a person who thinks too much of a particular subject, is all abnormal. When a person who is too engaged in his/her own thinking, his mental health is not normal.
The power of imagination can also be misused. The collaboration of a group of robbers to rob a bank needs careful planning and organization on their part to successfully achieve what they want. Drugs addicts take drugs to feel ‘high’ so that they can ‘imagine’ happy events, feel happy. The power of imagination has also destroyed people and families when these people (imagine themselves to be rich people), who because of their imagination, become unrealistic to the world, they ‘imagine’ they can get rich just by ‘imagining’ and ‘thinking’.
There must be a balance in everything. Whether it is food, health or just anything. It’s all a matter of balance. If you are out of balance in any particular area, then that will be what you get.
Imagination is an extremely important capability of the human mind. It encourages creativity of thought and learning which enables human progress and improvement to be achieved.
