Let it Snow

We took the family to see Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol in 3D. My four year old daughter reached out her hands to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky in the film and couldn't understand why they weren't in her hand. I explained to her that the snowflakes were not real and felt disappointed to tell her this. I admired her for having such a wonderful sense of imagination, which all young children seem to so easily have.

When we become adults, we tend to lose sight of our imagination and become more aware of what 'reality' is. And yet what is reality?

As Einstein said "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Our perceptions of 'reality' can get in the way of our imagination. As Ken Robinson, internationally acclaimed leader in creativity and innovation pointed out in his book called 'The Element', "People will pride themselves on being 'down to earth', 'realistic' and 'no-nonsense' and deride those who 'have their heads in the clouds' and yet far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth."

The power of our imagination is what has created all that we have around us. When we use our imagination and let our ideas stick together, the end result can be an avalanche:

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together." Source unknown.

 

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ...............