Imagination is the process of thinking in your “mind’s eye” about the possibilities of what can be.  Imagination is about the creation in your mind of anything without limits.  Imagination is the beginning of a dream, and a dream is the beginning of creation and action.

To imagine is to live.  Children imagine all of the time, for they have not yet been indoctrinated to the “real world.”   Children imagine crazy and outrageous things because the do not yet, “know better.”   It is the child within you that dares to think beyond anything the world has created or experienced.  So what are you waiting for, awake that child within you with the outrageous imagination and try doing thing a little differently today.

Story:  The Boy with Special Powers

There once was a young boy who lived in  small house with his large family.  He shared a bedroom with two other brothers.  Being the youngest, he received the last pick of the beds, which was below his next oldest brother in the bunk beds.   He wanted the top bunk, but his older brother would not allow for him to even sit in that bed.

The oldest brother, had his own twin bed across the room from the bunk beds and insisted that he deserved half of the bedroom, for he was the oldest and needed the space.  The next oldest brother insisted on nearly most of the other half of the bedroom, relinquishing the youngest brother to a small corner of the room, and his bed.

At nighttime, the boy would prop up his bedding to make a sort of tent, where he would use a flash light to read his favorite comic books.  He enjoyed anything that had to do with other worlds and travelling through outer space.  He had to read in secret because his brothers would tease him telling him his a “knuckle head” and if kids at school found out what he was reading they would call him a nerd.

Sometimes after school before the others arrived home from their activities in the many sports they played, the boy would pull out different action figures that he had stowed away in a secret box beneath his bed.  He would reenact the various scenes in a mixture of the stories that he read about in his comic books.  Sometimes the scenes became so real, he felt he was actually in them with the other action figures.

He found that he could switch between action figures and actually “feel” and “sense” the figure so much that he could see through the eyes of the character and feel the surroundings of the character.  With a flip of his mind he could switch between characters and take on that persona.  The boy would get so entrenched in these “make-believe” scenes that he would sometimes forget to do his chores and his homework before his parents arrived from work.

One day, his mother came home and called and called for the boy.  Startled, she began to search the house, when she opened his bedroom door to find him with his eyes closed listening to the action figures in his new world.  The mother touched the boy, which startled him and asked him what he was doing.

“I’m just playing with my friends,” the boy replied.   “I’m sorry about the chores, I’ll get on it now.”

The mom answered, “that’s okay, you can have a pass on the chores today, but you better get to your homework.”

Then she asked, “what exactly are you doing anyway.”

The boy went on to explain each of the action figure’s names and the special powers that each possessed.  He then continued, “some day,  I’m gong to have a special power, too.”

The mom patiently listened to the rest of the stories about the make-believe worlds.  Then she closed with, “honey, I know for sure that you do possess a special power, and that someday you will find it.”

The boy smiled, as he packed up his toys to hide them in the box before his brothers arrived.

As the years went by, the boy never forget his mother’s statement about possessing a special power.  He wondered and wondered what it might be.   Pretty soon, the boy graduated high school, and went on to college.  Being a creative mind which he still possessed, he opted to study the sciences.

After graduation, he continued onto medical school and became a bit more practical.   Years later, he was a practicing doctor in a children’s hospital when he came across a patient that had a terminal disease.  He was a young boy no more than 7 years old who was diagnosed with leukemia.   The doctor could not get the boy out of his mind.

When he would make his rounds to see how the chemo was progressing with the young boy, he would often find him playing with action figures, not much different from the ones the man once played with himself.

That night, he went to his childhood home and asked his elderly mother if she knew where his special box was.  Together they looked in the closet and the man found what he was looking for.

The next morning he stopped by his young patient’s room with his box in hand.   He sat on the edge of the boy’s bed, and told him about how he, too, played with action figures.  The two of them talked for a long time, and the man said, “I would like you to have my action figures that I had as a young boy.”

He then continued with, “you know, you have a special power, too, and you just need to find it.”

The boy, smiled and thought about that statement the entire night.

A few days later, the doctor was checking in on his patients and reviewing the charts when he noticed an anomaly in his “special” patent’s chart.   This cannot be he said, so he re-ordered the blood test.

The next day, the test results were back and the results were the same.  All of the tests came back “normal.”

He rushed into the boy’s room where his parents were sitting in the chairs that were starting to become their own.  The boy was playing with his new action figures and had much more color in his face.

“Hello, I have some interesting news,”  he said as he entered the room.

“Hello, Dr. Spock,”  said the child jokingly.

“Your blood tests have all come back as ‘normal.’   I doubted it, so I ordered another set of tests, and those all came back as normal as well.  It appears the leukemia is gone!”

“How can that be?” said the father.

“I don’t know.”

“I do,” the boy piped in.

“It’s my special power.   I simply told the leukemia to ‘go away.’”

He then continued to tell his parents about how Dr. “Spock” to him about having a special power.

That night, the doctor went home and told his wife about the events that have transpired over the past few days.   He told her that maybe we all do have a “special power” and he never really found his.

The wife replied, “honey, you did find your power.  It’s to inspire and encourage others.   That is what you have done your entire life!”

That night, the man fell asleep and dreamed about all of his “make-believe” worlds where he inspired everyone to find their own “special power.”

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Everyone has a “special power” sometimes hidden deep inside of them.  Few people find it and then realize they have other “special powers” as well.  The power of the mind is the only thing that actually limits the power of the body.

Find your “special power” and let the world see how special you really are, as you inspire others to find the special power within them.

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The world is full of people who possess special abilities, for everyone has a special power.  However, only few people actually look for their “special powers,”  but those few people are the ones who find it.

Written Mon Jan 6, 2014, 7:58 – 8:27 AM MT