Anna Craft the co-founder
of the journal ‘Thinking skills and creativity’ passed away prematurely of
cancer
She was at the forefront of new thinking
on education, coining the phrase possibility thinking to move from WHAT IS to
WHAT MIGHT BE.
This in essence is what ‘Kalpanakaranna’
is all about. One must think of tomorrow and no longer of today. The speed of
innovation and new means to tackle today’s issues both of the mind and the
body, its time we explore what might be, and not what is, and accordingly
permit out imagination to run riot in thinking of the unthinkable.
In our relatively mundane lives where
there are so many things we just have to get through every day, and take a
break in front of the TV just to relax, if we for a moment took time out of that
relaxing time to relax in another way, by allowing our imagination to get the
better of us, we may come out with some simple suggestions, to improve the
quality of life, which we otherwise would not have been able to come up with.
The need to balance the physical and
mental in life, is something we don’t think about. However that is the only way
to get through the competing demands on our time, that others place on us,
often due to their own inadequacies that are thrust on us as our own. This
thinking of what might be, is a way to deflect some of that inward stress on our lives, that are caused more by
others, due to their problems, and the power they have over our lives, either as
a parent, a schoolteacher, a priest, or your employer or the person who is your
immediate supervisor.
My advice is to take some time out, first
to identify the problem, (that is only if you feel there is a problem!) and then
use your imagination, as to how to solve it by unconventional means. A problem
of the day is the word much ill used, the common opposition candidate!
If your really think about it, it does not matter a hoot who that can be, even
a dog, so there is NO NEED TO waste time speculating who that might be, but be
sure to vote for that symbol whatever it is to, get rid of the present, as a
dog would do better than the present set of leaders, who have squandered our future,
and that of the future of the unborn to such a degree, that few fail to use
their imagination to measure, as it is immeasurable!!! Just think about it.
