I had a conversation with a friend about being in confinement and how we were coping. He told me that imagination was the only thing getting him through. I replied with “imagination can only get you so far.”
I don’t know why I said that because it’s obviously not true.
When we are down and defeated, we imagine a better future so it keeps us going. Fortune 500 companies had to start out as a thought first. A concept, or imagination. Everything is conceived in the mind and then later brought into fruition through willpower. We imagine a better life for ourselves so it causes us to go out and seek that. Sometimes we even get the life we imagine by chance.
So really, I think imagination is powerful. Insert the quote by Albert Einstein somewhere in here:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
– Albert Einstein, physicist
Without imagination, those little sweet moments… the completely uncalled for, the spontaneous… the things that make everything worthwhile, would cease to be.
Music would cease to be. So many things, disappear.
So I’m going to appreciate my imagination more. For that is where my creativity comes from, and forms the basis of my identity.
Artistic Apathy 