Merchant of dreams
Do you remember the last time you played pretend? When was the last time you were a princess or a ninja or a spy or a pirate or a pop star in your head? I guess you could say those are silly questions to ask anyone who considers themselves not to be a child anymore. That then begs me to question why the questions seem silly. Playing pretend is one of the earliest skills we acquire growing up. The art of putting on a lens to shape one's reality to however they it seems fit to do so. A lot of it is based on the things that one has previously seen or experienced, which is how a toddler can play kitchen based on their observations of a parent cooking in the kitchen. As time goes by, and more and more information is acquired, one starts to extrapolate the information. You start to go beyond what you usually see in the kitchen, what if you were stacking pancakes all the way to the moon or how would you act if you were in a cooking show? If I am not being too presumptuous in m...