"Controlled Craziness"

"Imagination is more important than knowledge".

I will stand by this statement made by Albert Einstein until the end of time.

Because, with knowledge, you can only do so much. There are boundaries, rules, facts and information you have to abide to. You can't just ignore them. On the other hand, with imagination, there are no boundaries, there are no rules. In fact, the only boundary you have is your own creativity. Using imagination, you can create something that is not there, you can see things that cannot be seen by other people, you can hear music in silence.

Nobody knows what really goes on inside this crazy pink glob of matter we call our "brain".

You  may know everything there is to know about music theory, but without imagination, you will never become a Mozart or Wagner. You may know every known technique about drawing and painting, but without imagination, you will never become a Monet or Dali.

[caption id="attachment_210" align="alignright" width="253"] Earth according to Hindu Mythology.[/caption]

I am pretty sure that the people of earlier ages were way, way more creative and thus much more imaginative. It takes imagination to look up at the starry night sky and connect five stars so that they resemble a woman, and call it Andromeda, a queen who was banished into the sky for being very arrogant and self righteous. Now what people see when they look up at the exactly same night sky as the Ancient Greeks looked up into and saw all of the people, animals and stories in, is "galaxies" and "stars", not queens and beasts and scorpions.  Also, much earlier, people believed that the Earth stood on elephants standing on a turtle which moves very slowly. I personally believe that the people who thought this up are much more valuable than the 4.0 GPA, genius, skeptical people working in NASA.

Yesterday in our discussion in class, one of my friends defined imagination as "controlled craziness". This is the best definition I've ever heard of imagination. Because, in any other case, looking outside the plane window and seeing a wicked, cringing creature with eyes as dark as the night sky standing on the wing, would be called "craziness", not "imagination".

Imagination is looking at the moon we see everyday and seeing a Death Star. Imagination is getting carried away in a science fiction novel written by your mind after looking at the descending mist or on Halloween. Imagination is being able to see a giant hunter raised to the skies with the scorpion he killed by looking at just a few, twinkling stars, which are in reality, at colossally different places in the universe, with no connection between them what-so-ever, but, who cares about reality?