Imagine… “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ~ Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.
Children have the wildest imagination. They become a superhero with blanket as a cape; a racecar driver speeding down the hallway in a used cardboard box; a nurse bandaging unicorn’s wound with toilet paper.
The possibilities are limitless.
As we grow older, the lessons of reality teach us the importance of rational thinking and logical reasoning, and we store away our imagination into a box. The older we get, the smaller the box shrinks. “Who I Am” gets put on display, while the possibilities of “Who I Could Be” fades into the basement.
Rather than shackling ourselves with chains of our history, our impulses and patterns, what others demand of us, could we be open to something else? Could we reimagine ourselves as who we could be – who we want to be?
Perhaps the legendary hero archetype was within us all along – we need only to summon him/her to defeat our monsters.
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” ~ Jamie Paolinetti.
– Psychologist in Action.