I remember when I was
still very little; I told my mother that the house I’ll live in will be completely
made of glass. I had big dreams and all that mattered to me was that I was able
to accomplish those dreams, not considering the several obstacles that I would
face. I didn’t think too much about failure because it wasn’t even in the
picture. Nothing was impossible and impossible was nothing to me.
Life went on and I grew
up. I began to lose my sense of possibility and became more ‘realistic’. I
began to face reality and my dreams began to diminish. They became smaller by
the day until dreaming big or dreaming at all was alien to me. The truth is
this happens to a lot of us. So many people had that possibility mentality and
impossibility was nowhere near their thinking until life happened to them. They
grew up; and in the process of growing up they lost their possibility mentality
and their wild imagination.
Maybe you have come
across children who demand seemingly impossible things from their parent. For
example, we have kids who ask their ‘poor’ parents to buy them things they
can’t afford. These little children go as far as demanding things their parents
can only dream of buying. To the kids, what matters is getting what they want
without considering obstacles and limitations. But we adults can take a cue
from them. This is how we should be thinking.
Just because we’re
growing or grown up doesn’t mean we should abandon the limitlessness of our
minds and imaginations. Just because we are adults doesn’t mean we aren’t
permitted to reason like children once in a while. To a child, nothing is
unimaginable. Whatever can be conceived in the mind can be created by the
hands. Live limitless! Live creative!
This is good. Thanks for this piece.
ReplyDeleteMy sentiments exactly..we have been thought to believe a positive mentality is unrealistic and negative is reality..
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