Friday 4 January 2019

IMAGE-IN, IMAGE-NATION, IMAGINATION

In one of his witty posts, Gilbert Amatta wrote; “The word 'bed' looks like an actual bed.” This sentence might be mistaken for another quip of a status update, but it got me thinking. We think in pictures, past and present, but what is more important is that we should evolve to a state where we LEARN HOW TO THINK IN CLEAR PICTURES OF THE FUTURE NOW.
The things you imagine, soon begin to emerge

“Where do you see yourself in the coming years” is a classic question, but unfortunately one that never to spark our imagination once it is posed. Yet, our answers every time that question is thrown our way only expresses our fear filled hopes, our vague aspirations, and desperate ‘prayers’ but rarely a clear picture of the future we want. Our challenge is that while we hope for the best, we keep ‘seeing’ the worst that could happen, and we wonder why it keeps happening. One of the greatest messages I listened as a young man was a speaker who stood up, closed his eyes and in the calmest yet confident voice began; “I AM SOMEWHERE, SOMEWHERE IN THE FUTURE, AND I LOOK BETTER THAN I LOOK NOW” Can you do that?

I ascribe to the wisdom of the eyes being useless if the mind be blind!

The ability to imagine, or rather IMAGE-IN the future in its details, colours, emotions, joys, the people in it, the scent, environments, is an ability that draws us faster to our dreams and aspirations. When you can synthesise experiences in your mind about spaces you have never occupied, but wish to, places you wish to go, but never been, things you wish to have but never had, you begin to create such experiences, and soon they manifest. Imagination is KING, and if I was a millennial, I would say imagination is bae! Refuse to depend only on the two eyes that see what you are facing when you have a mind that can see places you have never been.

You are an artist, your imagination is the canvas. Make your best impressions of the life you want on that canvas, and do not hold back, epic living is possible for you …yes YOU!

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