I is for Imagination by Conlee Ricketts #atozchallenge

is for Imagination

I love it when it is so quiet I can hear the snow falling.

I love it when I see a shooting star.

What tiny moments do you love?  Not because you receive their gifts every day, but precisely because you don’t.

These tiny seldom occurring events are the kind of moments you can use to exercise your imagination.  I have to close my eyes to hear the snow in my memory, but I can keep them open to see the memory of a shooting star.  I think that’s weird.  The image of a shooting star floats in my imagination somewhere above this page.  It almost seems to be floating in a bubble above my head. 

I love the way imagination works.

Imagination can certainly be used to create brand new never before seen things, sounds, stories, solutions, etc. but I like to think that I am more likely to imagine that “great new thing” if I insist on using my imagination often—giving it practice.  So I exercise mine by filling my imagination with details from things I do remember, but I don’t worry about accuracy.  It might sound like I’m exercising my memory, but it’s more than that.  I don’t just remember something—it’s the practice of filling my mind with sounds and pictures that I can really “see” that is helping me improve my imagination.  I have practiced hearing my snow falling so much that I am now able to close my eyes and hear it when I’m in a crowded place to help me feel centered and calm.

Think of a moment you remember seeing or hearing. That moment you are imagining belongs only to you, it's a special moment that you were graciously invited to witness and now it is being imagined once again by you.  Didn’t that just add a whole new level of “special” to your moment?

Thing are perceived in only one way—your way—and it happens for each of us (which is probably why there are so many misunderstandings.)  Your memory, your moment is unique to you—mine is unique to me.  Fascinating.  I think that makes these moments treasures to behold and definitely worth spending at least sixty seconds with every day exercising your imagination.  How about you?

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