Apr
14
Daydreamers get a hard time of it. If you’re daydreaming at work then you’re ‘wasting time’ and if you’re daydreaming on the bus then you look strange. But why is this? For what reason has daydreaming taken a back seat to things like playing computer games, searching the web for luxury kitchen accessories and hanging about with a hoody on (not together of course, that would be strange…)? Is it not true that some of the most influential thinkers of our times have cited daydreaming as an art? OK, that might be pushing it, but many philosophers have listed thinking as a hobby. And if they say so, then why shouldn’t it be true?
I love daydreaming. It’s got me through countless crap jobs, bad times, and generally enabled me to escape at will during times of great stress. It’s also given me a break during particulalry nasty confrontations with numerous bosses who had me in their office to complain that I day-dreamed too much (which I maybe did…) So how could that possibly be a bad thing? If it was up to me I would make everyone take at least two hours of work every day for a regular daydreaming session. Imagine the ideas that would be invented with all the people of the earth thinking so much at one time!
I encourage you, dear reader, to daydream like crazy. Day dream as you walk. Day dream as you swim (being sure to remember to breath, of course) and just don’t let anyone stop you. The world needs more of it, so feel free!