You were wrong, Albert Einstein. There is something faster than light. It is called the imagination, and it is the single most powerful force in existence. Our strongest telescopes cannot pierce the veil of distance and see the other side of the universe, and yet our minds can leap there instantaneously. We do not yet have the technology to send ourselves back to the dim reaches of the beginning of time itself, nor can we hurl ourselves forward and experience firsthand the future that has not yet been. And yet, as a science fiction writer, I have traveled the farthest reaches of the cosmos and sailed the seas of time.
Nothing that humans do is without some element of imagination. Every invention we create and use had to first be thought up in someone’s mind. Whatever religion you might hold dear requires you to believe in things that you cannot see, and what is that if not imagination?
Imagination is not just flights of fancy. It leads us to flights of reality. We imagine ourselves journeying to the stars and we have already taken our first, tentative steps on that quest.
Perhaps we should stop telling our children that daydreaming is a waste of time. Imagination is like any other skill. The more you practice it, the stronger it becomes. We need to remove our children from in front of the TV screen, because that is rapidly becoming the surrogate for imagination, much like a babysitter stands in for a parent. We need to stop filling our minds with noise and sound bites and flashing images.
Maybe, if for just a few minutes every day, we all found a quiet place, and closed our eyes and let our imaginations run wild, they would become the rocket ships that we first imagined, back before we ever left the confines of our atmosphere and reached for things beyond our earthly vision.
Pouring My Art Out 
Without imagination we wouldn’t have cell phones, etc., etc., etc.
imagine that
Well, the fiction bit of it.
uh huh
yeah, the real stuff is just about imagining it in my head (which is a level of daydreaming) and finding the right words to bring it out, the fiction is all about creating a character and imagining him in a variety of scenarios until his story develops
I do that
yeah, but I have a bad habit of traumatizing my characters, they hate me
I do some pretty messed up stuff to me in my own books…
so you’re the masochist and I’m the sadist
We should really mix it up a little
I was wrong, wordpress is the sadist.
I knew it
let’s pay them a visit, but don’t forget the canoles
I never do
good, we can eat them on the way
context…
yeah, I’m not sure what wordpress tastes like
like spam… HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hahaahaa
Oh yeah
All of my writing begins from daydreaming.
My whole life is daydreaming
Yeah, during my hardest times in life, I used to imagine I was starring in a movie, so none of it was real, and it made it seem easier to get through
wait until they make my books into movies… then I can have it both ways
hahaa yeah, I wanted to make a tv show out of Grimm, so it would be kind of like that for me, but I think I’ve kind of given up on that idea, tv is really out of my realm
My books would make an awesome series on the sci fi channel
I wish we had a tv connection
exactly
I don’t even know what posts these comments are on.
it’s evil
evil evil evil
Do you like “Kids in the Hall?”
I loved that show… I squish your head…
“do you want a beer or do you want to drink out of the toilet?”
wheeeeeeeeee
“citizen cane! it’s citizen cane!”
Oh, rosebud… you sleigh me
don’t call me shirley
McClane
McCloud
McNuggets
McJagger
Madagascar McNascar
the drive through along the race track
The drive in movie theater in the middle of the race track
the car wash in the parking lot
the townhouse in the backseat
the brothel in the bathroom
The brisket in the bubble
the bobble in the basket
The babble in my blog post
the gurgle in the bugle
the bunghole in the Jung pole
the jung and the restless
The Freud and the Beautiful… dang it… not as good as yours… plus my wife watches that one
wait… that sounded wrong
yeah, I ignored it, proud of me?
I am
Well said, my man. I have no snarky comments or disagreements to make.
seriously???
Wonderful
thanks
I agree. And who knows, perhaps imagination has built the reality we now experience.
There is something to that theory…
Well basically that seems to be what you were saying in your post. But I wonder if it can be taken a step further. I wonder if everything, including things not invented by humans, are the product of some sort of imagination.
That seems like it would be awe fully confusing.
I agree with your misspelling.
dang words