“Imagination is more important than knowledge”- Einstein
To have boundless imagination I believe you too must have boundless hope. See, I have a great imagination but limited hope. My mom, she has enough hope for all of us and considering her life, that’s a miracle…but I’ve been free and seen people so bogged down by stress, hurt, and responsibility that hope and imagination become viewed as distorted illusions to which no one has time for, I was one of those people. But here in prison, people speak through imagination 24/7 which is passively coated with feverish unrealistic, unrelenting hope. I hear every talk and conversation in descriptive detail of what, how, who and where without the when, and it’s mostly from lifers or people doing 50 plus years, but they don’t let that taper their destination, let them tell it, they will be wearing this, going there, doing that, having her, eating everything, spending it all! Every magazine, TV show, or gossip is a shot at fantasy land and it helps them survive, stay strong and push forward. No one can live for us, so we create our own reality, why speak like you’re already dead? Real life shouldn’t be different, allow yourself imagination and hope. Moral? There’s pro’s to a con, imprisonment brings out insight from inside living that inside strife. It’s never too late to believe, actions are manifested thoughts. Hope hard, imagine hard, then, do believe and become so much more..it can only get greater when you add another aspect of living to life. Others are able to be encouraged by that high spirited optimism, just as I have been. It’s contagious, personify that boundless belief system instead of carrying that unbearable weight of doubt around. You can know so much but become dull with information that is unusable without an imagination to insert it within your life. Dare to escape into your mind from your mess and become more than now, never content, never contempt.
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