I wonder...

Have you ever noticed that sentences that start that way always lead to good things? Not the kind that goes "Pft! I wonder what possessed her to wear *that* outfit today!" but instead, the "Hmmm... I wonder...". You know, those that end with the three little dots that some of us call an ellipsis. Well, I don't call it that. I say "dot, dot, dot". It's more fun that way.


For me, those are the sentences that don't finish out loud. They finish in my imagination, where anything is possible. Imaginations are magic, really. Anything you want can exist there. But is it all a dream? A place that's never meant to exist for real and is just there to taunt you with things you can never really have? I don't think so! To me, my imagination is my lab. I can come up with some kooky idea, play with it, and just leave it safely behind until the next day where I can just pick it back up and marvel at my creation some more, finding new and exciting ways to improve it until it feels just right.


Once you have a great prototype though, it only makes sense to launch it. You could always just keep it in your imagination, but surely, something so wonderful must have its place in the real world where you and everyone else could benefit from it. It doesn't have to be a magical pogo-stick or a kitchen gadget that allows hands-free preparation of raw chicken (if it is though, let me know!). It could be a vision of yourself pursuing a craft, a pass time, a career - anything that makes those butterflies in your belly flutter around in that giggly way. So the next time your imagination tries to start working on something new, don't stop it. Don't say "that'll never fly", "yeah, in my dreams" or "this is useless". Many great creators in the world today could have said that about their projects, but they didn't. One thing I'm almost certain they all said though, was "I wonder..." And I'll be they all had fun once those words left their mouths too.

Photo: I wonder... what it's like to be a ballerina in an uncoordinated outfit on top of a huge boulder on an island in the French River? Now I know - it's a lot of fun!