Focussing on your imagination and creativity…
13 Mar 2021
Dear LPG,
Over the past year I think that we have all needed to rely on our imaginations more than ever, and I think that it is a lot easier to do for some people than for others, but I wonder if working hard for forty or so years leaves us each with so little time that, when we get to retirement a lot of us have forgotten how to get them fired up again.
So the question is, once we retire and finally have more time to exercise them, have we just lost the aptitude to do so? When you take a look at the clouds do you just see clouds or do you see all sorts of animals and objects floating by? What do you see when you close your eyes?
When I was a child there were few televisions, even fewer computers around and so many more books which described things while our imaginations filled in the blanks. Computers and televisions tend to do that work for the children of today which I feel is a bit of a shame.
Children are always encouraged to use their imaginations to play and learn about the wide world around them and, I think that talking on the telephone for much of the past year has improved mine a little, in spite of all the time I have spent watching television during that time. I also have spent quite a bit of time using my tablet to Google all kinds of things, and it was while in the middle of one of my fact finding online sessions that I found an online calculator or two designed to measure the extent of the imagination that each person who attempts them, or at least fire the imaginative and creative juices a little.
NM, Bellingham.
NM offers her quizzes for LPG readers to try…
LPG has kept MN’s letter for a while so that we could post it to coincide with World Imagination Day which falls on each March 14th and we offer a little information about that celebration.
