Close your eyes.
Take your mind back to when you were a child.
Do you remember holding your first toy? How excited were you when you were holding that toy? Was your first toy a Barbie doll? Did that doll make you feel like you had a real friend?
Was it a G.I. Joe action figure? In your mind's imagination, taking your mind towards the action.
Was it a Power Wheels vehicle? Now, you felt like you were a grown up ready for the open road!
Each toy had a personality that brought you joy - joy that made you feel alive! Almost like Toy Story, it sparked your imagination that developed you - developing your imagination. Can you remember those moments?
I can remember these memories.
Being five years of age, I remember always running towards the toy area dragging my mother to buy each toy. To my mother she saw her wallet becoming light, but in my mind I saw paradise. Each toy was a world that I could create as my own. My imagination was sparked. I felt alive!
Christmas was always a delight. I remember stacks of presents. Presents that meant toys. Each toy had a personality that enriched my personality. It fueled my dreams - sparking my imagination. I once wanted to be a medical doctor - pediatrician to be exact. I would use my mother's stethoscope as I placed it on a Pound Puppy.
I remember the feeling everytime I played with my toys. I didn't play, because I wanted to have fun. I played, because I felt my imagination and my creativity being sparked.
Too many people want their children to grow up - make adult decisions - crippling their right to imagine and choose. However, this can be detrimental towards a child's growth. Listening to the Youtube channel TheAtheistVoice Hemant Mehta has said in an episode that teaching a child Santa Clause will make it easier to teach a child there is no God. I have heard many secularists make their children free thinkers. But, how can children free think if adults tell that them there is no God? Did they arrive towards that conclusion themselves?
In December 2017, I had a conversation with my supervisor's supervisor, who, in his 50s, has a three year-old daughter. The rest of his children are in their mid - 20s. He told me that he had a down day, but his daughter came out in a fairy suit just to cheer him up. My supervisor told me he could have been upset with his daughter, but he couldn't be upset towards a child's creativity. It really made his day he said.
Talking about God, and how belief correlates with imagination, he agreed with me that when we take away imagination and belief we cripple the future. In other words, many of the greatest innovators were once children whose imagination was sparked by toys or the encouragement to believe. Criss Angel, the magician, bought magic kits when he was a child whenever he had the money, thus making him one of the greatest magicians of our time. William Hearst traveled with his parents around Europe inspiring Hearst Castle.
I know that my imagination has been sparked by the places that I have traveled and the toys that I have played. It developed my mind while fueling my imagination of tomorrow. We can't predict the future, but we can predict how we shape the future through our children.
As many know, Toys 'R Us is closing its doors. For many this is just another business closing, and it doesn't matter much. But, this is much more than a toy store closing. I see an icon that has inspired many great architects that bought their first Lego blocks at Toys 'R Us; or the next fashion designer as they played with their Barbie dolls. Each toy inspired the next generation, because we inspired them when they were first children. Furthermore, it isn't the children's lives being affected it is the employees who have families that they have to feed. This is more than just a toy icon needing to be saved. This is the imagination of the future.
I hope that you consider donating towards the cause of billionaire Isaac Larian's cause. He has created a gofundme page where you can donate towards the cause. I agree with the him that the pipeline will be too long should the last American toy icon be liquidated. Here is that gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/helpsavetoysrus.
I hope that when you donate that you're not thinking of just saving a business; but rather saving the future. After all, imagination started with a child.
I remember the feeling everytime I played with my toys. I didn't play, because I wanted to have fun. I played, because I felt my imagination and my creativity being sparked.
Too many people want their children to grow up - make adult decisions - crippling their right to imagine and choose. However, this can be detrimental towards a child's growth. Listening to the Youtube channel TheAtheistVoice Hemant Mehta has said in an episode that teaching a child Santa Clause will make it easier to teach a child there is no God. I have heard many secularists make their children free thinkers. But, how can children free think if adults tell that them there is no God? Did they arrive towards that conclusion themselves?
In December 2017, I had a conversation with my supervisor's supervisor, who, in his 50s, has a three year-old daughter. The rest of his children are in their mid - 20s. He told me that he had a down day, but his daughter came out in a fairy suit just to cheer him up. My supervisor told me he could have been upset with his daughter, but he couldn't be upset towards a child's creativity. It really made his day he said.
Talking about God, and how belief correlates with imagination, he agreed with me that when we take away imagination and belief we cripple the future. In other words, many of the greatest innovators were once children whose imagination was sparked by toys or the encouragement to believe. Criss Angel, the magician, bought magic kits when he was a child whenever he had the money, thus making him one of the greatest magicians of our time. William Hearst traveled with his parents around Europe inspiring Hearst Castle.
I know that my imagination has been sparked by the places that I have traveled and the toys that I have played. It developed my mind while fueling my imagination of tomorrow. We can't predict the future, but we can predict how we shape the future through our children.
As many know, Toys 'R Us is closing its doors. For many this is just another business closing, and it doesn't matter much. But, this is much more than a toy store closing. I see an icon that has inspired many great architects that bought their first Lego blocks at Toys 'R Us; or the next fashion designer as they played with their Barbie dolls. Each toy inspired the next generation, because we inspired them when they were first children. Furthermore, it isn't the children's lives being affected it is the employees who have families that they have to feed. This is more than just a toy icon needing to be saved. This is the imagination of the future.
I hope that you consider donating towards the cause of billionaire Isaac Larian's cause. He has created a gofundme page where you can donate towards the cause. I agree with the him that the pipeline will be too long should the last American toy icon be liquidated. Here is that gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/helpsavetoysrus.
I hope that when you donate that you're not thinking of just saving a business; but rather saving the future. After all, imagination started with a child.
