Many times do I find myself caught up in the reactions (meaning complaining, bickering, feeling anxious, nervous, guilty, etc) instead of taking a step outside and looking for a sensible solution for my situation. Many times do I forget my human power: imagination.

In moments of adversity, I try to close my eyes and think of the best scenario, the continued storyline of what happened instead of wishing the problem to go away. I won’t probably see the solution right away, but the beautiful narrative that will put my mind at ease. We all know, solving the emotional distress is solving half of the problem.

Slowly, the feelings stop building up, leaving space for the brain to look for the solution. Oftentimes, the solution is literally in front of me, all I need to do is to pick an action. Emotions are surely complicated and unpredictable but they are far different from what is happening in the external reality. I try to remind myself that I’m not a god, I don’t know many things, especially things behind the scene. What I can influence are my emotional world and my immediate surroundings. Hence, imagination is a powerful tool.

Even when no problem arises, I still use my imagination. I visualize stories. I put meanings into things. The homo imaginatus’s don’t realize that they use their imagination more than they think. The future projections, the worries, the fear, the anxiety, and even sadness, aren’t they all the result of their imaginations, or to be exact – their illusions of undesirable scenarios that don’t actually exist. You can call me illusional but are you not?

Either way, I like to live in my imagination, or even imaginations. It is living in another dimension of the world, which is far beyond the 3D reality. Humans’ imagination is a gateway into knowing how we’re making sense of our own world, and at the same time, creating different worlds. In this sense, I am the creator of my reality. You are the creator of your reality. And we are the creators of the world.

So which world do you want to live in? My world? Their world? Or your very own world?