Histories and images to distract us.
Yet, these images and stories stem from the imagination of certain individuals, a little more intelligent than others and who wish to make us travel in time and make us forget our daily lives. I believe that almost everyone loves this state of things or rather state of mind. With the years, it became a mind boggling industry and that is not to disappear anytime.
I claim that cinema is in part the fruit of the imagination. Yet, before it was a film, it was a book that someone wrote. And the words of that book are nothing else but the imagination of its author.

In fact, wasn't it Patrice Franceschi who said well before me that the 'adventure enables us to live intensely, literature allows us to exercise the greatest freedom, our imagination.

I do respect that desire, that willingness to produce something from nothing, if not one's spirit. And yet, in as much as this is available to everyone, only a small minority amongst us gets hooked to come up with master pieces. What a pity, isn't ité

We need however to recognize that the same imagination that brings and produces so much good for our planet, the lack of it costed sometimes many lives
We all remember the catastrophe of September 11, 2001.
An editorial of the New York Times of July 23, 2004 had a title;
´´A failure of Imagination'´in which it reported that the enemy is not terrorism but the threat posed by an ideological movement misunderstood by the American people. It is this lack of imagination and comprehension that led to that devastation.
Winston Churchill was the one who said '' Here is one of those cases where imagination is baffled by the facts''

One can ask the question: can we teach imagination?
Why is it not part of the curriculum in our schools?
You may tell me, it is like intelligence, we have it or we don't .
And in fact, how do these two qualities develop themselves?

I strongly think it has to do with curiosity. One must be curious, curious to learn everything, to know everything.
When you think of it, il all starts with the thinking. And this makes me think of something most original.
We often say that the equator is a line of thought ( eine gedachte Linie), 'a fictive line' and it would be wrong to call it an invented line or '' a product of our imagination', the equator does not hold it's existence from our thought, from a mental process, but this line is known and held by the thought. There was no equator before a man, one day imagined it.

On the other hand, we do remember the first cloning trial, on February 23,1997 when scientists in Scotland announced having succeeded by cloning to produce a lamb they named Dolly.
This experience taught us not to see nature as a guide of morality, for if we examine nature closely, the diverse strategies of reproduction within the animal kingdom will stupefy our imagination.
The case of the Komodo dragon for example, occasionally can create babies with hatched eggs without the sperm of a daddy dragon.

I will be most pleased to make a test with young kids asking them to imagine what we would find on Mars if one day we get there. I am convinced they will all have different and original visions. This exercise will be the best mean to develop their imagination and no matter what their answer is, it will be well appreciated, quiet a simple way to encourage them, by telling them not to quench their inspiration and their imagination,

I will also tell them that ''For it is feeling and force of imagination that will make them eloquent (Quintilian (ca35-ca100)
One more point, I will remind them to use their imagination not to scare themselves to death, but to inspire them to life.
I will share with the future scientists among them this word of John Dewey: Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
I will warn the most passionate among them that ''Imagination is the incarnation of idealism, but its power is limited because it is subject to human passions.
And I will finish with this beautiful saying of Jean Jacque Rousseau:
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

As a conclusion, I will give credit to Wayne W Dwyer, who in his ´´´Wisdom of the ages'', said ´´Live more in your imagination. Give yourself the freedom to wander into unfamiliar territory in your mind and to explore new possibilities in your fantasies, excluding nothing. These imaginative meanderings will ultimately become the catalysts for living an unlimited life