I can’t. You can’t. Nor can anybody else.
Imagination is not a facility that we were born with.
Before you raise furor over my ludicrous idea I plead you to spend a moment in serious contemplation…
When we imagine we actually put together several ideas…all of which have been previously encountered by us. However the final idea can be unique in its entirety…and this uniqueness leads us to the illusion of imagination. The recipe can be yours…but the ingredients were already there. We can NEVER concoct something that is new in every little detail. Have you ever been able to think of something like that? Or seen somebody else do so? Unlikely and impossible…
Am I refuting to acknowledge the talent of myriad poets and scientists and other accomplished people who have helped us to graduate from the brutality of the caves in the yesteryears to the security of the present day abode?
Not at all.
I am just saying that they are great composers… (My sincerest salute to all of them…)
It’s like mixing colours in a palette…we have a restricted spectrum of colours at our disposal. When we want a new shade we have to mix the already existing colours. When common people mix colours they generate a drab brown…when great people do so they find a delightful violet!
Anyway…so what if we can’t imagine…we can compose!
Also let me know if you can imagine…because that would mean you are none other than GOD Himself and I would really like to meet Him. (No…you don’t have to suggest the obvious way to do that!)
gr8 1 Tanima..
ReplyDeleteI think it would be more apt if we considered ourselves not blessed with faculty to create not imagine..
If at all we do embark on 'imagination',even the whole world would seem to too trifle not to fit into our minds..
Even God's, as you call it, ideas and logic can be questioned and suggestions offered :)
wow! i must confess i read sumthn diffrent...i never IMAGINED it that way even then i vil ponder..mtuned to ur blog
ReplyDeleteI totally agree wid u regarding the concept of imagination or rather composing as u said..Very intelligently written..:)
ReplyDeletehmmm.. true.. its composing.. but even composing requires imagination to an extent.. but great thought!!
ReplyDeleteSometime it has crossed my mind. No thought can be an original thought... have u ever given a thought abt it..
ReplyDeleteone small question .. how would you define the state .. when one tends to add the touch of sublime superiority to his/her composition..? If not IMAGINATION of something ideal..what according to you, is the best word/phrase to define it? And when I say that..I wonder how the languages came into being .. is it all improvisation?? I guess then human beings would not have ruled the world till date .. questions .. questions(which obviously you are not bound to answer :) ) .. only proper justification might incline mine thoughts to yours in this regard!!
ReplyDeleteLanguages huh? Of course they represent an improvisation of the guttural sounds.
ReplyDeleteAnd that state of epiphany which you choose to call imagination is what I choose to describe as the perfect composition with inspiration from experiences so ingrained in our souls that we can't even trace back the sources.