Foundation of Creativity
I know many people have written about the transition from childhood to adulthood.
But I am still amazed at how the world transformed between those two positions for me.
Video games were just hitting the market, and yeah, I owned a system, and played many video games, but...
I also went out and dug out a 40x30 piece of garden into a huge battle ground with GI Joe and Transformers and Star Wars with my neighborhood friends.
We worked and toiled to see how imaginations come true.
And its truly amazing what we rediscovered about the world.
I learned how to make adobe type bricks out of mud, we used it to make dams so hard it took a pickaxe to bust them.
Roads and all sorts of things twisted their way around the makeshift river.
I have yet to witness a child in the past decade have as much imagination as I did during those days.
I guess it paid off, one of those kids I played with in my youth went on to become a civil engineer.
You couldn't keep me at home in those days.
Admittedly I grew up in podunk nowhere, but I used to ride my bicycle over 5 miles away from my house, unsupervised, with some friends.
Now you can't seem to get kids out of the house, and if they did, you have to keep a close eye on them due to all sorts of evils out there...
I can't tell you how sad it is, when I see this day's youth, so coddled, yet so afraid of the world, with hardly any imagination.
Sure, they may be experiencing some of the greatest stories ever told through video games, but all the imagination part is given to them on a plate...
I can quote all sorts of people all day long, but Einstein stressed the most how important imagination truly is.
Knowledge is important, but without the imagination on how to apply it, then all is lost.
Freedom is such a huge word, yet kids are so tethered at home.
Sure, we fear for our kids, but how much damage is being done to them by being shut-ins? When I was young, the world was full of dangers, but I had no fear, and only hope for the future.
I still remember playing in my grandmother's garden, as she watched blissfully enjoying the youth in her yard...
I'm glad I had those day, because they were part of the foundation that my creativity was built upon.
But I am still amazed at how the world transformed between those two positions for me.
Video games were just hitting the market, and yeah, I owned a system, and played many video games, but...
I also went out and dug out a 40x30 piece of garden into a huge battle ground with GI Joe and Transformers and Star Wars with my neighborhood friends.
We worked and toiled to see how imaginations come true.
And its truly amazing what we rediscovered about the world.
I learned how to make adobe type bricks out of mud, we used it to make dams so hard it took a pickaxe to bust them.
Roads and all sorts of things twisted their way around the makeshift river.
I have yet to witness a child in the past decade have as much imagination as I did during those days.
I guess it paid off, one of those kids I played with in my youth went on to become a civil engineer.
You couldn't keep me at home in those days.
Admittedly I grew up in podunk nowhere, but I used to ride my bicycle over 5 miles away from my house, unsupervised, with some friends.
Now you can't seem to get kids out of the house, and if they did, you have to keep a close eye on them due to all sorts of evils out there...
I can't tell you how sad it is, when I see this day's youth, so coddled, yet so afraid of the world, with hardly any imagination.
Sure, they may be experiencing some of the greatest stories ever told through video games, but all the imagination part is given to them on a plate...
I can quote all sorts of people all day long, but Einstein stressed the most how important imagination truly is.
Knowledge is important, but without the imagination on how to apply it, then all is lost.
Freedom is such a huge word, yet kids are so tethered at home.
Sure, we fear for our kids, but how much damage is being done to them by being shut-ins? When I was young, the world was full of dangers, but I had no fear, and only hope for the future.
I still remember playing in my grandmother's garden, as she watched blissfully enjoying the youth in her yard...
I'm glad I had those day, because they were part of the foundation that my creativity was built upon.
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