Expect something out of your fantasy, it’s there for a reason.
Inspirations from the book The Magic Chalk, by Zinken Hopp
A boy finds a piece of chalk on the pavement, picks it up (of course) and for no other reasons than fun and fantasy he draws a door on a wall nearby. He then realizes that the door can be opened and he walks into his fantasy world. The world that he has made up and drawn all by himself. Anything he draws comes alive. He draws another boy and suddenly he has a friend and together they go about exploring this world of fantasies.
Children’s play is full of imagination and it is a crucial part of the individual’s personal development. In recent years, however, researchers have found that the diminishing precense of adults in their daily lives negatively affects play and children’s ability to role-play and expand their imaginations. It seems that in a sense the children become more like adults and lose the important aspect of life that is imagination. Maybe we should see this as a worrying development?
When you were a child you also fantasized, most of the time. Do you still do it? Even if you don’t have a magic chalk in your hand you could hold it in your mind, in your imaginary hand. Fantasizing is a part of our existence and it is fundamental to our creativity and although people are more or less creative, that capacity is allowed to all of us. It is not just an optional and possibly existing add-on to your professional life. Let it be a useful and powerful part of it.
If you don’t imagine what could be, you restrict your options and your prosperous future may not become what it could have been. Now, even if you allow yourself to fantasize it may still not turn out to become exactly what you imagined but a mature way of dealing with fantasies would allow you to keep a sound balance between fantasy and reality.
