It is my usual tendency to daydream. Ever since kindergarten, I daydream about a lot of things. Once, I daydreamed being someone out of a fantasy novel, and it didn't turned out well when I became the laughing stock of the town. Daydreaming could help people, especially desperate artists like yours truly, to add color to the world they despise as being dull and lifeless. Wikipedia defines daydreaming as a "visionary fantasy experienced while awake, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes and ambitions". To put it simply, it's like dreaming in a semi-aware state, where you bend reality in a way that could relate to you and your imaginary motives.
Well, as a self-styled eccentric, daydreaming is a tool. A tool to help me understand and look at the world in a different, if not, twisted perspective. It is my hobby. That thing I want to do once in a while to escape the harsh reality of this antagonistic world.
But some people call daydreaming a meaningless waste of time. A senseless pursuit for nonsense and the like. Something that could hinder human development, maybe? But why should they contradict such activity that had helped produce a wide array of geniuses, literary moguls and artistic demigods?
In actuality, many of the world's brightest minds who made an impact on humanity took their inspiration solely from reverie. Take Leonardo Da Vinci, for example.He was one of the forerunners of the Renaissance period. A true genius during his time. The way how his innovative mind ticked is reflected in his notebooks filled with sketches of the human anatomy and objects that were not even invented during his time. He owe it all to his craftiness, and of course, to the times he spent daydreaming.
Daydreaming could lead one to a vast treasure trove of ideas. Ideas that could develop the whole aspect of a person. Ideas that could influence someone to be excellent.
Like it or not, daydreaming is here to stay. And as long as a lot of people are indulging themselves in reverie, creativity will not cease in this unimaginative world.
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