remember having imagination?

My boyfriend and i were watching this kid play outside of our apartments, he was alone just running around with like 9 sticks in his arms clearly pretending he was some sort of ninja. He was throwing the sticks like a pro, and waving them around in the face of danger. I wondered what he was imagining he was fighting as he jumped up and kicked the air.

Whatever it was, my boyfriend and i knew we'd be sleeping safely that night.

I started missing the old days where i would pretend my bike was a racecar and my calculator was a cash register. ahh, the good ol' days.

 

I like to sit on my porch and read when it's mild enough, and with lots of kids on my street, I know just what you're talking about. They are pretty fun to watch with their imaginary wars and stuff (almost all boys on the street). And when they're alone, how they can just as easily invent a whole world and not be bored by it.

 

I used to turn a big cardboard box into a store and make my calculator my cash register (just like lucyinthesky) and then sell my toys to my parents for about 50cents a piece and make my parents buy them.... I would get the toys back off them after i had closed up shop and spend my days earnings at the little corner shop... haha

 

i had a really vivid imagination when i was a kid, and i really miss those times! last summer i babysat a 6 year old girl, and she would make up the most random things and i play along all the time, but as an adult, you can't be a apart of their world, can you? it was still fun, it felt very liberating to be 'a child again' and play cowboys and chase each other pretending we had an infectious virus heheheheh...i also realised that i wasn't ashamed of being seen playing like a little kid, maybe if i were younger i would've...so it can only mean i'm not getting any younger !

 

after yeas of thinking it was 'manly' and 'strong' to hide away such thoughts, ive brought it back, even stronger than when i was a kid, and so now, im never bored.

 

I watched half of 'Braveheart' tonight,but had to leave for the nightshift at 10.30pm - as i cycled down the road - i imagined i was on a horse with a real sexy women wondering where i was as i plunged into battle.

well - theres a real sexy women who might be thinking - 'i hope that mad f**kwit doesn't call round tomorrow night'

 

I help watch the younger kids at my church on wensdays. I find myself fighting dragons and running after fairies with them.

Why do we ever have to stop? I think one of my most cherished moments with somone was walking down the beach pretending we were in a musical...Funny part? That was last year =P

 

too right.
had intercourse once and we ended up being the two crocodiles out of the budweiser commercial - both singing 'ooh la la say soul - come come on' - she was underneath laughing her socks off as we waddled across the floor

 

Rock on! That made me laugh!

 

Oh man boxes were so fun! We'd make cutouts and tape shoeboxes and the like to the outside, so that we could have cupboards inside; we'd leave the cut-out flap connected on one side for the door. And if we could find more than one box, we'd connect them and have multiple rooms. Man, we'd spend hours in there, pretending it was a rocket ship, spybase, house, or whatever.

and I love how anything could be turned into a gun. Hockey stick, tree branch, anything vaguely shaped like one. My favorite was my dad's caulk guns, but don't tell him I was playing with his tools

 

I remember my grandma used to let me and my brother go wild in her kitchen. She'd let us mix all sorts of weird things together and she'd stick them in the oven. We had some pretty weird stuff concocted, but I usually ate it...lol. We also started a "club" with our next door neighbors because they were lucky and had an old camper and a boat in their backyard, so we had all sorts of adventures. But I think my favorite thing was pretending I was a scuba diver in our old pool. That was so fun.

I decided I'm going to avoid talking toys with my kids because they don't encourage imagination nearly enough. I remember I never really liked my talking toys because I had a better time talking to my dolls and imagining what they were saying back. I also plan on having lots and lots of boxes because those are the best!

 

yeah - i remember being small enough to climb into a cupboard full of blankets in the bathroom - it was like the labrynth in there except - it had a door with slits in it and one day i saw something i shouldn't have at that age (4 or 5 years) - cos they didn't know i was in there - oops

 

remeber? that's the only thing that make's us human. big part of what's wrong with the dominant culture is brainwashing people into throwing theirs away. if children were the only ones alowed to have any there'd be no art, or gardens, or much of a whole bunch of things worth living for. no wonder so many people go goofy or try to kill themselves.

without immagination we'd all just be drones, slaves, whatever idiology or anything else we payd lip service to.

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thank you.

 

Certain books draw me back to that feeling of awe, & wonder from childhood.
I still have a fairly vivid imagination, but it's all cluttered up with adult crap now. :/

Yes, I miss it, it'd certainly make work a little lighter.

 

either i am dirty minded, or that beautiful landscape has a naked chick posing as the water. either way, cool signature.

 

Oh my god, I could make an entire day of playing out scenes with Barbie and the rest of her gang, I was so imaginative.

Even more so, I used to like to play doctor a lot, and I would use those little keychain flash lights to look in my moms eyes, nose, and mouth... and I'd pretend to type on a keyboard when she "checked-in" and everything... it was amazing.

And haha, instead of pretending my bike was a race car I always just pretended it was a regular car, and I would go to the "Store" and park it in my driveway and pretend it was a parking lot...and all sorts of good stuff.

I'm pretty sure all children are the BEST mimes ever... they can just act all this shit out, without even having props.

 

oh man i used to do this too except i used to also use these really big books as sliding windows like in a dr's office. Oh man! i also used to play 'video rental place' and have my grandma call me and tell me what videos she wanted on hold. I did this playing 'vet' too.

lol oh man i totally shit when i read this. i did the exact same thing. I would even push my mini shopping cart full of groceries from the garage all the way to my 'car' and put whatever plastic groceries i had in there in my little basket at the handles and then i would slide my cart under my dads truck as if it were one of those cart holder things in the parking lots.

god we were sweet.

 

The neighbor hood kids and I used to pretend that these "bad people" were spying on us. Every time a little personal plane flew overhead, the same car drove down the road, it was another spy. We had little notebooks and kept track of all the incidents.

 

hahahahhah, awww, so adorable!
i used to play with barbies like mad. id make up all kinds of different senarios.
most of the time id play with them in the bathtub. i loved getting their hair wet for some reason. i also loved dressing them up and then having a G.I. Joe rob them or something. i dont remember much details, but i remember always being entertained.