Imagination

Imagination. What is it? What makes someone have a good imagination? Is someone who is random, imaginative as well? Can everyone have an imagination?

Proper Definition of Imagination: the product of imagining; a conception or mental creation,often a baseless or fanciful one. (courtesy of dictionary.reference.com) 


My English teacher today, was also talking about denotation versus connotation. She basically said that denotation was the proper dictionary definition and that connotation is what you think it is. What you think about when you think about that word. 


When I hear the word imagination or any form of it I think of: fire breathing dragons, palaces, stars, fairytale endings, things like that. To have an imagination I think you just need to be creative. When you can make up your own story, you think it through in your head, that's imagining it, hence, the word imagination. But that's just my opinion. What do you think? 


I believe that anyone can have an imagination if they want to. I don't think that the people out there who go around and live their life thinking to themselves "This sucks. The world sucks. My life sucks." have such great imaginations, but they're just not acting upon it. They haven't realized the escape in can provide from the real world and all its horrible things. Sometimes, when I'm in my own little world, I imagine that none of the bad things happened, they don't exist. My life is incredible and i can do anything and be anything. I think that artists (as in painters and photographers) most definitely have imagination. To think things through and adjust their masterpiece just right to evoke just the right feelings and emotions form the people who view it.


Well anyways, this is just what was running through my mind today during English class and I thought I might write about it a little. Hope you enjoyed!