Imagination And Freedom Of Choice: What You Make Of It


As i seat to write this, trying to recount my imaginations, i just realise that i can't put a number on how many times i have imagined. One thing i notice though, is that it is conscious effort; you don't imagine in your sleep, you don't imagine when you are too angry or too excited, you don't imagine when you are stressed out to that point where all you want to do is lay and rest. Rather it takes place when yo want it to. How many times have you sat to imagine things that will stir you up to be a better person?

Imagination is one of the most advance human faculties; in it there is creativity, resourcefulness, hope, self - motivation. The dictionary defines imagination as the image - making power of the mind: the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived. This means you have been empowered and now what you make of that empowerment is the choices you make.


 Do you remember that verse of the bible that says "the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." (Genesis 2 vs 7). I personally believes that when God breathed into man, he gave us two really important gifts (the ability to imagine and the freedom of choice) until then, man was just an inanimate lump of clay in human form. Our ability to imagine distinguishes us from all other creatures. I have never heard or come across any article or a book or even watched on the national geographic channel about animals or plants that possess this wonderful ability. how awesome is that no natural being can tell exactly what your imaginations are? No one can take it away from you, they are yours to do with them whatever you so please. Maria Montessori who was an Italian physician, educator, philosopher and humanitarian, she is best know for her philosophy and the montessori method of education of children from birth to adolescence. she said, " imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. (i am in love with this quote).

Now all those imaginations will NEVER come to reality if you don't push it out of you, they will just still remain your fantasies, of cos i am referring to positive imaginations. OK lets take an example. A guy sees a lady, he likes, respects and even remembers to pray for her well being. This are his imaginations "she is my girlfriend, then my wife, we will have cute kids, we will visit beautiful places together; we will sit by the sea and watch the sunset." this guy will just be living in his fantasy until he makes a decision to walk up to the lady , start up a conversation and follow it up with calls, text messages, IG likes and facebook likes (just to gain her attention) gifts and plea for dates, he most definitely wont see those wonderful imaginations become reality, so it the choices you make that brings those imaginations to live, until then, they are inanimate.

In one of my previous post, i mentioned something about the choices we make, even though we still believe we didn't have a choice. Going back to my example about the guy, it is one of three things, he could say to himself " i don't have what it takes to go talk or even be friends with this lady" he could say "i will go ahead, if i get a yes, thank God! If i get a no, so be it" then he could also say "if i get a no, i will push and push harder, even go to take up persuasive skills classes just to make her sure she becomes mine." the point here is that whatever result from those imagination of his will be birthed from the choices he will make or has made.

This applies to our daily living; you imagine that you obtained that top managerial position at your place of work. You imagine that you are the president of your country, you imagine that you finally released that album and it was a hit, you imagine that you own your own conglomerate, you imagine that you are so rich that you can't count how many bank accounts you have, you imagine that you finally got into that career part you have always wanted, you imagine that you now live in that area you have always wanted to live in and the list our imagination goes on. All this could either be short term, semi - long term or long term goals we have set for ourselves through our imaginations. You can't see anything if you haven't imagined it.

Just so you know : your vision is birthed from your imaginations, your mission is birthed from the choices you make and it could all be possible if you can start with an imagination. 

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Chidimma
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

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