"Daydreaming"

Imageination is a persons healthy escape from reality, surveyor of future goals, and dreams. To me daydreaming is the soul of imagination. All my greatest ideas and aspirations have been born out of this mentally removed state of relaxation. I find it easy to sit in my room and daydream; I feel as if I don't need artificial forms of entertainment such as television. To except what you imagine is to except who you are, even though not all that is imagined manifests in the physical side of life. Art is imagenation in its simplist form, it not only an artists' attitude or talent, but the artist themself.

To dream while awake is to sew the seads of wisdom within your mind. To drink so many Jack n' Cokes that you can no longer taste the liquor, and Jon Bon Jovi songs start to sound "kick ass", is to live in a dream while awake. Do you think Carl Marx thought up Communism while sitting at a table with a pencil and paper trying to come up with a new type of leadership. "No", he thought it up while trying to go to sleep in a frozen wasteland that is the Upper Step of Russia. What he was doing was daydreaming, and that is where all great ideas of wisdom and supior philosophy come from.

The Greeks had great philosophers, and thinkers in their time because to walk around all day long and think was considered a noble profession. The human mind was reviered, respected, and thoughts of the individuals had weight no matter what their content. Do you have any idea how hard it would be to get a job being a "Thinker", or "Philosopher" now-a-days? It doesn't happen. Does it seem to you that individual thought, in America, is discouraged? If not discouraged, not emphesized as important, or even labeled as unproductive.

Well my own thoughts tell me that for a person to think independently in today's world is unproductive, if not destructive. But not to the thinker at hand, but to the powers that be. I hate to constently use "911" as an example to bounce ideas off of, just because it's already used to the upmost so much that it changes, in my mind, from a national catastrophy into an annoyence of biblical proportune.

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