Where are you going? (Imagination, Part II)

So what's really being asked when we ask ourselves if or how our imagination is stunted?

That's the question I finished on in the last post, but I'd rather take a step back and to the side. What's the point of asking at all? What's our purpose in asking? Paraphrasing again from Mr. Azure - if we don't know what cause we're after, how can we be sure we're investing our time and energy in the right direction?

We care about the state of our imaginations because how we imagine things affects the kind of person we are and the kind of person which we are becoming. Imagination (or lack thereof) is a key basis of our formation as individuals. If you haven't got your own imagination and control over your ideas - is that concerning? (It's not to say you have to be original in everything. There are plenty of things that have been repeated through the centuries because they're actually good ideas.)

A large part of our imagination faculties are used to plan for our future, like I said earlier. We dream about what we would like to do or where we'd like to be and then we imagine a plan of how to get there and if we have our act together we execute it to make dreams reality. What we imagine is what we become - if we execute. I think that's important to remember - your dreams are not who you are, but only who you hope to become, until you actually do it.

Some people think that our imagination takes a hit as we grow older because 'reality' kicks in. We had dreams, but we learn more about the world and those dreams seem to become unachievable. To a certain extent I suppose this is true - there are so many things I'm sure are mostly impossible simply because of worldly physical limitations - but isn't that the fun and joy of imagining - ways to overcome such limitations? It all depends at what point the employment of our imagination becomes too difficult to bother with - if or when the mental effort takes more than you might get in results.

So where do you want to be in the future? That's a big question, obviously. But how we address it might tell us as well how our imagination is doing.