Imagination

As an adult you are expected to keep your feet on the ground and your head out of the clouds.  Fantasy is for children.  You are to focus on the world around you as it is, not as you wish it to be. 

To that I say... meh.

One of the greatest assets someone can retain from childhood is imagination.  The world may tell you to leave the world of fantasy behind, but why?  What is so amazing about reality, anyways? 

All it takes is a glimpse at the news, and a person should realize that reality tends to suck.  Obviously you can't avoid reality.  I mean, your day to day life is lived in reality.  Yet, how are we expected to make reality suck less if we can't imagine something better? 

Imagination is the seed that can create a new world.  A better place for you, and hopefully for others.  Sometimes it is just in the shape of a story.  Sometimes it's an idea, or a plan.  Imagination is the part of your brain that can birth greatness. 

Also, imagination is the easiest way from going crazy.  Sometimes you just need to slip into another world of your own making.  Maybe that world is a giant spaceship with a crew exploring new and exciting worlds.  Maybe that world is a kingdom filled with wizards and dragons.  Maybe that world involves red rooms and tie ups...

Whatever your fantasy, never feel ashamed.  Fantasy is where you can do and experience all the things that you can't in your real life.  Imagination can give you hope. 

Without imagination, there is no hope.  So what does an absence of hope make us? 

Hopeless.