The Magic of Imagination

I wonder why people choose to stop using their imaginations? When do we reach that mysterious age when we are too old to take part in the magic of imagination? In one day, my twins can go more places and do more things than most people do in their entire life. Take today for example.....In a twelve hour span they have been veterinarians saving every stuffed animal imaginable. They have been fire fighters climbing ladders and rescuing a trapped family from a towering inferno. They have been race car drivers, going 110 miles an hour and train engineers racing through the country side. They have been skaters trying out for the upcoming Olympics, one practicing jumps, the other chasing a hockey puck. They went outside to our play structures and instantly transformed into a prince and beautiful princess fighting off an evil witch. They have seen animals, people, forests, castles, moats, ice rinks and mountains. They are currently sailing the high seas as pirates. "Ahoy Mateys" is the call coming from the tub.

Why would anyone want to stop using their imagination? So many adults seem unhappy or unsatisfied with the day to day grind. What if we could take time out of our day and travel to exotic places trying out a new identity? Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you become? Albert Einstein once said:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

I do believe that imagination is the key to many successes. I think that we are given children to remember the innocence of youth. To transport us back to a time when imagination ruled the day. And so, I now must travel into the Wild West, where I am a Sheriff trying to catch two rambunctious bandits and get them into bed!