dailydatewithgod

I remember as a kid my sister and I were in the kitchen and we managed to create this blob substance from flour, water, and food coloring.  I remember it was all over our hands and we walked around trying to convince people to be scared of the green blob that had overtaken and disfigured our hands.  It was absolutely ridiculous but this concoction made up of simple materials became what seemed like endless entertainment.  That is until we had to clean it up.  We were brought back to the reality of it being water and flour.  When it hardened onto our skin and the table surface we created it on, it was actually rather laborious to clean up. It was still worth it just to see the neighborhood kids freak out. Kids are free to create concoctions all the time and they do.  There is a freedom there to make things out of whatever materials they have at the present moment.  We do this all the time in our heads.  It is shelved under the heading of creativity when we are tasked with it at work or in an improvisation class.  Most of the concoctions we create are only in our minds and we forget they are made up.  We create meaning out of what someone says to us.  We design a story of reasoning from little details obtained from our limited perspective. The difference between these kinds of concoctions and those created in play or discovery is we do not see it as our mind playing.  We see our concoctions as real.  We believe our concoctions.  We create them so quickly and do not question them as real or not. We take it so far as to be dismayed and deny the validity of other evidence when we find out our concoctions are not real.  When we are provided with more details from other people and sources instead of taking them into consideration we defend our concoctions.  This is when we know they have hardened.  Concoctions are our imagination at work and an important part of who we are.  The question is, how many of them have hardened into beliefs about ourselves and others based only on our limited perspective?