Listening to Einstein?
How much am I encouraging imagination in my kids? How much am I strengthening my own creativity and imagination muscles? All the knowledge in the world doesn’t do any good if you don’t have the imagination and creativity to do something with that knowledge. Einstein’s right. Knowledge has its limits. Imagination and creativity are unbound!
Unfortunately, we live in a culture that doesn’t really value imagination. Yeah, there’s glimpses of it here and there. But even the things we call “creative” really display a lack of imagination. We’ve become lazy, willing to re-hash what has already been created because it “works” instead of taking the risk to imagine new territory.
It was imagination that led to some great discoveries and inventions. It was imagination that has pushed us to explore. And I don’t really see that being encouraged today. Instead of creativity, I see recycled ideas. Instead of pushing to the edge, I see satisfaction with the status quo. Instead of exploring other worlds, we’re settling for hitching rides on other countries’ rockets. Instead of stretching ourselves to find ways to be the Light in a dying world, the momentum pushes us to keep things the way they’ve always been.
Has imagination died? I don’t think so. But if we’re not careful, we’re going to have our God-given creativity sucked out of us like the flourescent lights in Joe vs. the Volcano*. I don’t want that. I don’t think you want that either.
So what are we going to do about it?
The above photo was taken at
the Air Zoo of Kalamazoo
*The language in this clip does include a few instances of words that are not kid-appropriate. You’ve been warned.
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