Unshackle your imagination

In you, is an imagination well that is waiting to be unleashed into the world. The education you have received thus far pales in comparison to that rich, limitless oil field that rests in your soul. In fact, you are what you are because of the education that you received in the confines of the four walls. Just imagine if your education was tweaked to include the limitless freedom of the soul. The results would be nothing short of astounding and fantastic.

Do all human beings have the capability to imagine? Well, such a well intentioned question from a well intentioned human being can best be answered by the question: Do all human beings breath? I know you are now asking yourself, how can a question answer a question?  In this world of possibilities, anything is possible.

Now that we are agreed that we can all breath and therefore imagine, we need to commit to being imaginative in all the areas of our daily today lives. This will be the only door through which we shall enjoy a roller coaster of excitement in our lives. Imagination invites the prospect of excitement. It invites that inexplicable feeling of confusion and exhilaration that accompanies the butterflies that flutter in our stomachs.

Our world is a better place because it was once home and continues to be a dwelling place to those who went against the tide of the known. They choose to delve into the depths of their imagination and give to the world an orgasmic excitement: Albert Einstein, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Florence Nightingale, Issac Newton,Walt Disney, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Shaka Zulu, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King,Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Okot P' Bitek, Pele, Steve Jobs, Barcelona FC ad infinitum.

In all fields of human endeavour, there are individuals who, because they choose to act different from what was known, preached and encouraged, have left and continue to leave foot prints in the sands of time.

You need to talk to that individual in the mirror and urge him/her to let the you in you shine. Once that you is unleashed, you will go on to perform feats that can only compare to Olympic grandeur.

It is important that you set fire to your comfort zone. Imagination cannot be held in the suffocating confines of a secure life. It is fed with risk and daring. It is fired by enthusiasm. It is oiled by the human need to be the best that there can be. While security is a feature of the safety zone, freedom is the hallmark of imagination.

When you set fire to your bottom, you will be propelled to leave the known. Do you need to go to that extreme? Yes. Otherwise you will never gather the critical mass of anger and hunger that is critical for your imaginative juices to flow.

As you step out, with baby steps, into the new world, consider the words of Albert Einstein and let them comfort you and reassure you:
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Unshackle your imagination and be the best you that you know,
Do something new,
Walk the untrodden path.
The world will follow your footsteps.