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Friday, 22 March 2013

CRAZY

Every time I was on the train as a child I thought what if the same places existed at multiple points of time. What if I am seeing myself in the future. What if different points in time existed in the one place, we just couldn't see it, because we weren't looking the right way. As an adult I learned how is this possible, there is no science to prove this. I was a silly child.

But maybe as a child we do see things that people don't. Like the way you look into a babies eyes and they are so open to thoughts. I swear that every time they look at me they can see straight through me into my soul. 

Imagination is what makes a child so different from an adult, Because as an adult you are so moulded by the things around you that you don't really see them any more, I have seen that wall a hundred times. Plus you know all the factual information on everything that there is no room for theory.  You are told that these things exist and these don't. But who is to really say that something is not to exist. I am not saying this as a question to religion but more to question thought. Were is the original thought process, where does our imagination go when we are older and does having an imagination, make you weird or crazy. 

I have being told that living like a child makes you immature. Believing in things that people do not think to exist is crazy. Its the stuff that gets you sent away. But then such a big part of growing up is to watch things that people have created, monsters, magic and superheroes, to then be told these things don't exist. Who told you that they can't exist. What is wrong with believing in Batman. Maybe he will save me some day. He is just hiding right???? right????? RIGHT????? 

Okay back to focusing on the point at hand I suppose. 

My idea that I have being slowly progressing is getting there. I know for definite that I am going to be focusing on children, I don't know why. I think its just the admiration if only I could be young and naive again. What I want to focus on is how they think and looking into their imagination then showing there progression into life and reality. Basing off my ideas in my last blog I am going to take the boy and the girl character and develop them a bit more. I want to keep the essence of both the stories, but add a meeting to the beginning and to the end joining them together, in some way.

I am starting to some thumbnail sketches of the story, to just start structuring it a bit better get an idea of what I may want things to look like, but nothing final yet. This also brings me to the end of this blog entry too. 
so, 
till the next chapter 
over and out   

5 comments:

  1. Alana, it is funny our minds both touched on the same thought :)

    http://animatedthinking.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/wings-and-whimsy.html

    We all long to be children, and all children long to be adults. I think even if we are told to grow up, it shouldn't mean letting go of our creative imaginative minds and our ability to believe in something that seems crazy.

    As Terry Pratchett said, its the little "lies" like Easter Bunny and Santa (or batman ;)) that teach us to believe in the bigger ones like happiness and love. Our childhood teaches us to believe in that which we can't prove but we know exists ;)

    Can't wait to see your idea!

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    1. wow ha ha ha and I never read that bit of your blog, great minds think alike :P

      Its so true which is why movies are so popular, people want a sense of the fantastical. To know that the average man could achieve the impossible, that we can be in love and that there is a god and there is hope.

      People need to believe in things to know that their life has meaning and there is something to their existence, besides to just survive.

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  2. Yes, it was William Blake who wrote:

    "To see a world in a grain of sand,
    And a heaven in a wild flower,
    Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
    And eternity in an hour."

    Empirical knowledge can, and does, sit comfortably with intuitive knowledge. In other words, some things we know because we can see and mechanically prove them in the science lab, others we know because we can see and prove them in our hearts. To live a practical life should not mean living one that is prosaic. There needs always to be imagination and poetry in life, otherwise it shrinks.






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  3. I can't remember if it was you or someone else adil, but somewhere there was a discussion about the difference in attitudes to "blind belief" and "blind disbelief". That we are always more ready to accept disbelief, whether or not there is proof in either one.

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    1. Yes, Caitlin, I had mentioned that in my first class this semester.
      It was in relation to the hypocrisy amongst certain (academic) circles that go on about being scientific and unbiased when in fact they are so ready to accept, and even applaud, unsubstantiated disbelief in anything that falls outside of their very limited world-view.

      An open mind learns to see things with one "good" eye and one "bad" eye.

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