Musings on Imagination

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” --Oscar Wilde


It was also said about the filmmaker Akira Kurosawa that he never talked about the weather but simply worked and worked on scripts and ideas for more films. But I believe that all creative individuals are like this because I am also like this. I do not like to focus on the mundane details of life. Of course, the weather can be interesting, but I am sure Wilde is talking about your run-of-the-mill meteorologist report which is dull and only for practical value. I believe in talking about imaginative ideas which will entertain my ideas for novels and poems. Imagination is important in order to avoid the mundane and for those who do not have so much hope in their lives because now they can imagine something better for themselves instead of the depressing ideas that filled their mind.


However, this entertains a romantic notion which I am not too fond of, and I do not believe in: that we can imagine things and they will be better. Sometimes things are not so simple.