"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
I don?t think I ever met anyone with absolutely zero imagination but some have come pretty close. I believe that a person with little to no imagination must have had it stamped out by someone or something else along the way. All kids imagine stuff. They look up at clouds and see the most incredible pictures in the sky. When they play with their little super heroes they?re coming up with embellished upon storylines.
Imagination takes you to different worlds. It helps you solve problems because when you can think creatively, you can see different alternatives. You can see colors, forms and shapes and can set them down on paper ? if you have the skill. You can make up characters and give them a background and motivation.
Without imagination, you are limited to what you?ve seen done before. You can?t soar. You can?t get into an area no one?s thought of before.
It?s scary to think of someone trying to lead this country who didn?t have imagination.
Television will put imagination into a deep freeze. Television sort of hypnotizes you. The programs have everything wrapped up by the end of the hour. It?s really sad when kids end up staring at the TV screen cuz they are watching cartoons or are playing some video game.
The way people put kids? imaginations into deep freeze is by knocking them. If a kid feels inadequate because an adult has basically told him so, then his creative ideas are ?dumb? too. The thinking becomes just as stilted as the brains frozen by television?s banality.
There is nothing sadder about a kid who isn?t free to be creative either through fear or inadequacy, or through television induced stupor.
I?m glad that the kids are imaginative in different ways. Billy totally thinks out of the box. He keeps a sketch book so he can jot down ideas and inventions. The teachers recognized his abilities early on. He?d solve a math problem totally differently than they would and he?d be right. He took the PSAT and realized one of the questions was wrong.
Heidi?s skills are with art and with the ability to make up characters and voices and funny situations right on the spot. She doesn?t think she draws well but she really has a lot of talent.
Kristin has made up a little world peopled by sock puppets. They all have names and distinct personalities. She is a wonderful tutor and friend to other kids. She seems to have an instinctive ability to teach ? and that isn?t all that common if you ask me.
Last week I asked you to list your favorites...........this week we'll do just the opposite. "What is your LEAST favorite..........."
1. food: hot dogs
2. type of music: rap
3. subject of discussion: religion or politics
4. time of day: first thing in the morning
5. time of year: hottest part of summer
6. fragrance: something heavily flowery
7. actor/actress: Arnold Schwarzeneger/Roseanne Barr
8. commercial: Nextel
9. television sitcom: Married With Children
10. singer: Eminem