Never Loose Your Imagination

I don’t care how old you are, you should never loose your imagination. Having an imagination is very important because it allows you to live dreams, have thoughts, and do things you may not necessarily do otherwise, and allows you to escape reality. Even people who have pretty sweet lives still need to ‘escape’ from time to time.

T-shirt courtesy of BustedTees

I have to admit, I’m still a pretty big kid at heart. I don’t want to grow up…I”m a Toys R Us kid. That doesn’t mean I sit at home and play with my barbies, but you know what? I bet I could do that and still have fun. It’s what will keep me young and not build unwanted stress in your life. The longer simple things make you happy, the longer you will live.

I had a huge imagination when I was a kid, and so did both my sisters. I am the youngest of three so you can imagine I did whatever they told me to do. So in their imaginary worlds, I was there imaginary servant, and brought them imaginary food. Because I had such a great imagination, I LOVED being the servant and eating invisible food.

My sister and I even had our own imaginary world when we were little. We could only enter our world by jumping through the sprinkler. Once we arrived in our world, we could not let go of each others hands – we always had to be holding hands otherwise the evil spell would break the spell. What spell? Who knows but it would have been terrible if it was broken! The only way to return to the real world was jumping back through the sprinkler. (I’m talking one of those ghetto sprinklers that look like a fan and move down and up from left to right so it was like jumping through a curtain of water).  Sometimes we would be called in for dinner, but we hadn’t left our world yet so we had to eat dinner still holding hands. My mom would get so mad and tell us to let go but we told her we couldn’t! Because it would break the spell!

I bet there are times where parents think their children are bizzare. I’m going to have to remember my childhood stories to help explain my kids when I’m older and remember that the imagination is a gift, and so what if they have an imaginary friend, as long as they are happy.