We were 5 children. All would lay one after the other on a mat and most of the time would quarrel to catch the right place. My old aunt after finishing her night dinner, chewing a few betel leaves, would sit near our bed, caressing the hair of my youngest sister.
We all would tell in chorus, ”Aunt, start where you left yesterday; where did the monster go?” She slowly would recollect and continue the tale. All 5 of us would be in the land of Gulliver’s enjoying and imagining the story to the finest accuracy. We would be almost living and behaving like the heroes and demons of the story and some time imitate the character.
This was an usual practice during those days and whenever a schoolboy or college student find time, their craze would be to stay alone start writing about any imaginary topic or subject. They have the time and energy to hear what other’s say and have the skill and imagination to produce their own story or article.
Now can you imagine any children hearing stories from elders? Not even in elementary schools, where the curriculum demands to fore tell a story! The teachers nowadays ask the student himself to read the story and understand the moral of it. They don’t want themselves to be mocked for telling stories.
But the same stories, if produced into a TV serial or a cinema film, now everybody would accept it as a good story and told effectively!
Now the people are becoming victims of various unrealistic mega serials and are willingly avoid all their important work and spend time in watching those demoralizing serials. They not even try to realize that the stories filmed in the serials or movies may, not only spoil the time and energy but also slowly sewing a poisonous seed the minds of the whole family – the children, elders and everyone?
The imaginative power and skill of men is slowing dyeing. The colorful presentation, with rhyming words, has been killing our visualization capacity. So one sect of society has been eroded of imagination by these medias and publications.
On the other side, by the advent of computerization and automation in all fields, the human skills have been slowly getting diminished. For example a Piano, Fiddle, drums, flute etc – all can be played by a single man with just some fine adjustments on playing the keyboard composer. But in those days each and every musical instrument was an important one and playing them effectively was an art and skill. Now it is also dead. Imagination of a musician is now dead.
These phenomena of ‘death of imagination’ can be extended to any field.
Imagination is a vital tool for all creations. An architect needs imagination to make a good building. A scientist needs imagination to discover or invent sometime new. We are the product of previous generation’s imagination and our imagination will be the next generation.
So as Dr.Abdul Kalam said, “Children, dream!”
Do not allow the imagination to die.
We all would tell in chorus, ”Aunt, start where you left yesterday; where did the monster go?” She slowly would recollect and continue the tale. All 5 of us would be in the land of Gulliver’s enjoying and imagining the story to the finest accuracy. We would be almost living and behaving like the heroes and demons of the story and some time imitate the character.
This was an usual practice during those days and whenever a schoolboy or college student find time, their craze would be to stay alone start writing about any imaginary topic or subject. They have the time and energy to hear what other’s say and have the skill and imagination to produce their own story or article.
Now can you imagine any children hearing stories from elders? Not even in elementary schools, where the curriculum demands to fore tell a story! The teachers nowadays ask the student himself to read the story and understand the moral of it. They don’t want themselves to be mocked for telling stories.
But the same stories, if produced into a TV serial or a cinema film, now everybody would accept it as a good story and told effectively!
Now the people are becoming victims of various unrealistic mega serials and are willingly avoid all their important work and spend time in watching those demoralizing serials. They not even try to realize that the stories filmed in the serials or movies may, not only spoil the time and energy but also slowly sewing a poisonous seed the minds of the whole family – the children, elders and everyone?
The imaginative power and skill of men is slowing dyeing. The colorful presentation, with rhyming words, has been killing our visualization capacity. So one sect of society has been eroded of imagination by these medias and publications.
On the other side, by the advent of computerization and automation in all fields, the human skills have been slowly getting diminished. For example a Piano, Fiddle, drums, flute etc – all can be played by a single man with just some fine adjustments on playing the keyboard composer. But in those days each and every musical instrument was an important one and playing them effectively was an art and skill. Now it is also dead. Imagination of a musician is now dead.
These phenomena of ‘death of imagination’ can be extended to any field.
Imagination is a vital tool for all creations. An architect needs imagination to make a good building. A scientist needs imagination to discover or invent sometime new. We are the product of previous generation’s imagination and our imagination will be the next generation.
So as Dr.Abdul Kalam said, “Children, dream!”
Do not allow the imagination to die.
