Tuesday, July 9, 2024

If You Think It— It Be REAL

 

Up until the age of seven or eight, I believed that if I thought something up in my imagination, it became real.

 

A fine example was The Mickey Mouse Affair. I was five years old when I told my best friend that I had a “real Mickey, round black ears and all.”

“Where?” she asked.

“He’s under my bed and only comes out at night after everyone goes to sleep.” I said.

My friend wanted one also. She told her parents, who then summoned me so I can admit I made it up. I insisted my Mickey was real.


It wasn’t that I didn’t know I had thought this up, or that I was embarrassed about fibbing and didn’t want to admit it. I knew I thought him, and also was convinced that now he was real.

 

Kids. This is part of the magical age.

 

Most people outgrow this, or channel it only into the creative arts. A sad and bad scenario for those who don’t grow up is when they apply this to politics.

 

Today, I use my imagination to write fiction, which, as far as I’m concerned, becomes real in its way.

©Carina Povarchik


6 comments:

Barbara Etlin said...

I've created a couple of characters that seem so real to me that I miss them, now that they're retired from action. :-)

MirkaK said...

Imagination is the root of creativity.

Karen Jones Gowen said...

What a cute story! Reminds me of my son who had a stuffed pig he called Pig, who was as real to him as his siblings were. Writing or reading a book will take me away like this, where it feels real. So will a good movie. These are my escapes from reality.

Evelyn said...

An interesting post. Thank you, Mirka.

Vijaya said...

The monsters under my bed were all too real.

Sue said...

As a kid I was sure I saw the Peter Pan movie with real people. But when I watched the animated (1953) with my kids, I realized that was what I'd seen. Not the Mary Martin version (1960). The magic of imagination.

Those parents didn't get it...