Imagine...

Imagination can take you anywhere....A book I was reading recently was more heartfelt than the video I saw for the same book. The reason, well the way its written and the ability of mind to imagine and paint - paint universities, paint campus, paint houses, paint people, paint memories on the large canvas...Anything is possible. Mind is a wonderful as well as a dangerous thing. It can give you the power of positive imagination as well as the negative to make problems seem bigger than they are. You can only solve problem made big by ur imagination, by your positive imagination and your heart.

Just painting these pictures once a while...brings a new meaning, a happy state of mind. The gift of imagination and love are the two greatest gifts to mankind. We actually fail to realize how important these 2 factors are more often.
I think I am entering the harry potter mode since it released yesterday. Millions of children actually live in this imagination and live it like reality. It is so well painted. I actually want to meet the true harry potter charachter and visit 9 and 3/4 its that real. I wish....

I still remember the movie "wizard of Oz" (1939), saw it when I was in 5th grade. It was a film which starts in eastman color and then comes to color as the girl comes into fairy land. I confess its the most colorful transition and I must have seen it nearly 10 times. It feels childish to watch it now, but I still could if left on my own... :)
The girl is singing this song dreaming when she actually is transported to that place:
Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high.
There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue.
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops, Away above the chimney tops.
That's where you'll find me.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then - oh, why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,
Why, oh, why can't I?

sighhhhh....It definitely transports you to the neverland...

Similar are my attachments to "baker street", Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and the joy of much cheered Dr. Watson is equally shared with the comeback of sherlock holmes after his fake death....
The famous five's treasure island, smugglers top, kirrin island and sea are the places that really exist and which I did really visit every summer vacation. Chilling with the my dog on the beach. When I was young I still wanted to go to UK to actually see if the picture in my mind really did match anything up there...
The lilac inn and the Nancy drew from River Heights....are real people and places created after years of following her through her growing age and solving mysteries with her dad every other month and driving down to every mysterious cottage with her cousins george and bess...
The girls school Malory tower was the best girls school I really wanted to be in definitely after Hogwarts...
"Alice in wonderland" is by far the most random instance imagination I have ever seen. It is a book correctly made for children keeping in mind their attention span and hence the events in the book happen quickly and randomly. I am amazed at the skill of the author to capture such randomness in one small book.
"The little prince" is a book which does total justice to the word " a child's imagination". Its published in 180 languages across the world. That tells how many more children could visualize their dreams...

I have over the years come to respect writers a lot and by lot I mean so much that I wish I could be one someday. Its like music which has always been a part of my life. Writers have the extraordinary knack of capturing the mind and putting it on paper and then with the same ability to again free the mind so that others can see.
I cannot imagine seeing a movie or listening to an audio book if the book expecailly is not real world and requires a lot of imagination. The computer tapes and Ipods do not do justice to it.

I would so much prefer to have the crisp sound of the pages, the scent of a new book, the details of the cover, the beauty of heartfelt acknowledgements, the random page of the book written as preface and the book itself. I do not wish to miss out on any of it..
I remember when I used to have tons of enid blytons and nancy drew and I would scribble my name on 15 page of every book, so even if I find it with someone else or loose it, I did be able to just tell my book apart when I get it back...
I even maintained a register for that..Yes you can call this freakishness or a desire to treasure the childhood in which I have already visited other places on earth and also father away across the rainbow :) I got a childhood full of sweet memories because of these great writers and I got memories which were shared by so many more children that I still instantly bond with anybody who had followed Enid blyton, Carolene keen or Aurthur Conan Doyle.

I did like to finish up with an apt quote from "the little prince"
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye"