Let’s have a imagination here:
What is the source of Imagination? What is the role of Imagination in our life? Here, the word “Imagination” itself has become a question of imagination for me.
First of all I can say that Curiosity is the source of Imagination. Next, comes the role of imagination in human’s life. Imagination is the ability to visualize ideas in mind and then bring these ideas into existence and purposeful. Here, I had a curiosity to know how imagination takes place in human mind, how it is transformed into reality and how much the transformation of imagination is purposeful. To clarify my curiosity, my imagination grows further as outlined below: -
I began to imagine the human brain or mind as an individual owned Production Factory and Imagination as the raw material used to produce output. Here, the human mind is processing the imaginations growing in mind into constructive thoughts and then processing the thoughts further with self-analysis to transform into reality & existence as a final output. The final output of this production process are human’s actions, reactions, attitude, behaviour, intelligent or talent, inventions, discoveries, innovations, new creations, countless number of new ideas and endless possibilities of human potential.
Related to this, another curiosity grows in my mind, if I consider the human brain as a production factory, then what type of factory it is? After analysis, I find that the human brain (production factory) can be of two types in respect to benefits for individual as well as the society as a whole. The two types of the human brain are:-
1. One type of human brain (factory) is the one that produces finished outputs (i.e. positive thoughts & purposeful good results) and releases garbages (i.e. harmful negative thoughts) that pollutes the environment and surroundings disturbing the purity and reality of existence, and
2. Another type of human brain (factory) is the one that produces both finished outputs (i.e. positive thoughts & purposeful good results) and garbages (i.e. harmful negative thoughts) and re-processing the garbages (i.e. harmful negative thoughts) to produce fertilizers i.e utilizing the harmful or destructive negative thoughts in a constructive manner that helps the individual as well as the society to develop & excel in all respect.
From the above example of my imagination, we can see how an imagination of a human brain grows and comes to a conclusion. The above second type of human brain is felt necessary and beneficial for the overall development of an individual and the society. Another fact lies here that the conclusion of such an imagination of another human brain of another person will vary with a different conclusion & outcome. Thus, imagination exists in various degrees in various people either in highly developed or in a weaker form.
In reality, human beings of every age group like to imagine and it is mandatory too – whatever may be the cause with limitless boundary having freedom from external limitations. Imagination also becomes a source of real pleasure too. We can imagine the degree of liberty to imagine and how it makes possible to experience a whole world inside the mind on different point of views.
By developing this unique powerful human imagination, many talented & knowledgeable people throughout the history have benefited greatly the mankind with lots of inventions, discoveries, innovations, creating magnificent arts, philosophies, technologies etc. and allowing people to see deep into the secrets of nature, develop in thoughts, communicate ideas with other people etc. Renowned and successful scientists, artists, painters, writers, philosophers, architects, entrepreneurs, multi skilled talents etc. had proved the magic and power of imagination who had brought revolution to bring change and development of the world with their powerful creative thoughts and works.
Every aspect has a positive and negative side. So, imaginations have negative effects too. Daydreaming is a form of imagination. Excess idle daydreaming may make one impractical and sometimes it may provide temporary happiness, calmness and relief from stress. But a developed and strong imagination strengthens the creative abilities of one that can change a whole life and can make one’s hearts' desires come true. Imagination has a great role and value in each one's life. It is the beginning of creation. It is a creative power and plays an important role in the achievement of success in any field. It is the power beyond creative visualization, positive thinking and affirmations.
Due to lack of understanding of the power of “Imagination” people experience suffering, incompetence, difficulties, failures, negative thoughts and unhappiness. Understanding how to use our imagination correctly, and putting this knowledge into practice, for self and others' benefit, will put one on the golden path to success, satisfaction and happiness.
The degree of imagination highly exists in the children i.e the tender stage when children starts learning new things and develop brain’s power of understanding. At this learning stage, Imagination helps the children to solve problems through different outcomes to various situations and develop potential to cope up with difficult or new circumstances on their way. Imagination allows children to practice real-life skills, apply new learning and better understand to apply the skills in the real world. Adults who were imaginative children often become problem solvers, innovators and creative thinkers.
So, we can see how imagination plays an important role in human’s life. It is necessary to nurture and nourish the human imagination and capture the best constructive imaginations to transform into reality. It helps to develop interests and natural talents. According to Albert Einstein – “Imagination is more important than knowledge” as knowledge is limited but imagination encircles the world. Every human brain or every child is not talented in studies but may be talented in numerous other fields like painting, art, sports, music, handwork like handicraft, pottery or idol making, writers, inventive & innovative work etc. So, it is necessary to spot the talents in a child or anyone of any age and encourage such talents to improvise, develop and expand in their art of talent in any field that may help in building a successful career. All people have the potential to be creative but most never develop this unique human capability and not at all encouraged considering it as a wasting of time.
Hence, all of us should take the advantage of such a special god gift of creative imagination, it’s liberty to imagine and open our mind to new unexplored paths. Let’s imagine what we desire, let’s capture the best idea what we imagine and at last create and transform the imagination into reality to bring a change and develop self. A person should never be discouraged coming up with constructive and innovative ideas. The society should hear such ideas and try to experiment the ideas in practical that may bring change, benefits, development and upliftment for community, society, nation, the world and finally the people.
At last, a humble message to the people of Bishnupriya Manipuri Community–
“Capture the innovative imaginative ideas of available talents of the community, create a storehouse of ideas, give a chance to experiment the new ideas into practical and watch how it can bring a revolutionary change for the development of the community. Every developed civilization got the recognition as developed only after adopting revolutionary changes. Similar step has become must for our community’s development. It is necessary to keep our mind open to new unexplored paths and always be ready to accept & adopt changes which has become today’s most essential tool for development and upliftment of the Bishnupriya Manipuri community. We should not hesitate to come up with new ideas and constructive thoughts. A strong and common platform has become its necessity to unite the scattered population of the community and work jointly with a mission for progress of the community. We have also the liberty to imagine and can hope that the day will come when the struggle of Bishnupriya Manipuris to expose it’s identity to the world will come to an end. ”
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