Growing up and Imaginations

A Response to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Life passes you by so quickly that you don’t even have time to think. One minute you’re a child seeing things as being fun and games, until you get older and realize that the world is something bigger than fun and games. As you get older your imagination tends to slip away from you. You take things seriously and realize the world has plenty more to offer you.

Life as a child is incredible. You look into every store window and see glittery and shiny new toys.You think to your self, I am perfectly happy not playing with these toys I just like looking at them. You return to that same spot three years later. The toys suddenly seem not shiny and you notice every single imperfection. Your fantasy vision is slipping away;your imagination is gone. That’s how Francie feels when returns to the store window. She is growing up but she doesn’t want to loose that priceless imagination she once had. Nowaday the younger generation wants everything now in perfection. Of course it’s harder to relate, but children have dreams, and imaginations.
We all have dreams, especially children. It may be that we dream to be a super star or that the clouds are made of ice cream, either way we have a dream. Dreams can change over time from impossible dreams that your imagination creates to dreams that make sense and are realistic. Francie when she was younger, wanted to be a movie star, but when she grew up and her imagination slipped away from her, she moved on to something more practical: a play writer.

Besides imanging our futures, we use our imagination in games. Francie and her mother used to play North Pole in tough times when they couldn’t afford food. They would pretend that they were stranded on Antarctica there was and not enough food so they would scavenge their house looking for food. Now though that she older she has a harder time playing North Pole because her imagination has slipped away from her.

Whether big or small, all have an imagination, though when you are older your imagination slips away from you. Your fantasy vision is gone and you start to think of things more practically. Always try to hold on to some of your thoughts your imagination, for it is priceless.