The cave man imagined,out of need or fantasy.
We got the first stone tools. And then monarchies and kingdoms. The ancient craftsman imagined God. We got a Sanchi, an Ajanta, an Elephanta.
Voltaire, Rousseau imagined liberty and equality. The world got a French revolution.
But there is also a dichotomy. The medieval papacy imagined the earth to be the centre of the universe. It were Galileo and Copernicus who showed the world, the real. Remember imagination is Marx. Real is a Stalinist Russia.
Remember,
Either you make your imagination, your world, and live in it.
Or make the world, with your imagination, and live forever.
Your choice writes history.
Interesting! I prefer the first choice actually. Whereas it'd be wonderful to use my imagination to try and change the world, that'd just be using imagination in reality. As a writer, I prefer living in my imagination, wandering through it and making a world there. It breaks the monotony of the world around me :)
ReplyDeleteI imagine, as the writer, the potter, the poet and the sculpture.
DeleteI live in it, as if it were my abode in this crazy world.
Then, I create, and make it real, my imagination.
And then I and my creation,
make the world, change the world
and live forever.
Meet my imagination.
You'll fall in love.
For it is real.
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ReplyDeleteMind is funny... I can't distinguish between imagination and reality.. So many a time even when we live in imagination it helps and impacts our reality..
ReplyDeleteWell written Gazal...
I am here: http://rameshsood.blogspot.in/2015/06/chilled-moon-haiku.html
RS:)
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DeleteSo true we have destiny in our hands.....excellent response to this prompt....
ReplyDeletethank you.
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