Limits of imagination--?

As part of his talk, today's speaker said, "We have to go to the ends of our imagination and look past them." And my mind boggled. The *end* of my imagination? Admittedly, my imagination is mildly circumscribed by my experiences or lack thereof--there are things that I flat-out am not familiar with--but in the words of Han Solo, "I can imagine quite a bit."

During the Q&A afterward, I asked him about that, and he said that was the point he was trying to make, that we shouldn't limit ourselves/imagination. It resonated with something else he said, that the ideal was to free ourselves of our pasts (pain) and our futures (anxiety) and live in the now.

That made me rather happy, because in my writing, I've been finding myself most comfortable with the present tense. The last couple of things I've done that were in past tense have been a struggle.

To me, that sounds as if I'm making progress. (Now I need to deal with materialism....)

Limits of imagination--?

As part of his talk, today's speaker said, "We have to go to the ends of our imagination and look past them." And my mind boggled. The *end* of my imagination? Admittedly, my imagination is mildly circumscribed by my experiences or lack thereof--there are things that I flat-out am not familiar with--but in the words of Han Solo, "I can imagine quite a bit."

During the Q&A afterward, I asked him about that, and he said that was the point he was trying to make, that we shouldn't limit ourselves/imagination. It resonated with something else he said, that the ideal was to free ourselves of our pasts (pain) and our futures (anxiety) and live in the now.

That made me rather happy, because in my writing, I've been finding myself most comfortable with the present tense. The last couple of things I've done that were in past tense have been a struggle.

To me, that sounds as if I'm making progress. (Now I need to deal with materialism....)