This may be a bit off topic.
On a recent trip, I found myself watching The Princess Bride on the seatback screen. It was 98 minutes of bliss. It’s a complicated story but is still fit for kids. It’s got action, adventure, suspense, revenge, heroics, villainy, and yes, love. I probably end up watching The Princess Bride at least once a year because I come across it on the tv with nothing else happening.
The point of this, is that much like the kid in The Princess Bride, most of us try to reject the story happening around us on a daily basis. We don’t want to be in the middle of a love story involving kissing. Or we don’t want bad things to happen to our hero. Or we don’t want the bad guy to win. But sometimes there’s nothing we can do about it. The story doesn’t always comply with what we want to happen.
Our imagination is often the only thing that allows us to figure out what may happen next in the story of our lives. No amount of logic can predict the unexpected. No amount of analysis can perfectly predict the behavior of people. No amount of just rolling with the punches will be guaranteed to keep your head above water (because I felt like mixing metaphors!).
Through proper application of imagination, we can figure out our own positively unexpected future. Through use of our imagination, we can even figure out how to make it happen. You may think you do this already, and you probably do. What you don’t do is actively realize that you are using your imagination. You think you are simply being clever or smart.
Many adults think that imagination is for kids. Those adults are very, very wrong.