"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them anything is possible." Alexander Chase
I would love to take a poll of writers, and see how many of us consider ourselves gullible. I know I fit into that category. Just yesterday I read a sign on Pinterest that said something like “Say orange slowly and it will sound like banana” or some such absurd thing.
Sadly, yep, you got it.
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I had to try it out before I realized what
exactly was going on. Thank God it was
only me, in my mind, on the couch, in my own living room. Being gullible isn’t so bad if you can
pretend it never happened.
I have been fascinated about the imagination since I wrote
the guest post for the World of My Imagination about how I scared myself by
writing about aliens. (If you want to
read it, go here) I never realized before then how
imagination affects even our day to day life.
We can’t conceive of the world around us without it.
According to Alexander Chase, we’re not gullible, we’re just
credulous.
Doesn't that sound so much better?
Our active imaginations allow us to conceive
of any possibility being real.
It’s why
we can look at any ordinary object and ask “What if…” and come up with a zillion
different answers.
It’s why we can scare ourselves when we write about things
that are freaky. (Have you seen those grey aliens with the big, black,
almond-shaped eyes?!)
It is why we can dream up worlds, and characters, and alternate realities.
It's why we can write.
At least, that's my story... And I'm sticking to it!
Have you ever been accused of being gullible?
