The Importance Of Imagination

Imagination plays a role in everyones traveling, whether they realize it or not. Taking the time to stop and observe others, as well as asking some questions of those around us, can show us what role imagination plays in traveling. Everyone views traveling in their own way. The more experienced travelers usually seem to realize the deeper meaning of traveling, whereas the less experienced take it for face value, simply getting from one place to another. Looking deeper at what traveling is reveals its many diverse forms and faces. It seems to bare a different face for everyone. Some see traveling as shaking up the everyday routine of life. You can shake up the routine completely by doing something drastically different like going on a vacation or just changing something as small as taking a different route to work or …show more content…
Deciding how to shake up your routine requires you to use your imagination and think beyond your everyday drudgery. Other ideas of traveling such as just getting from point A to point B may not appear to directly need creativity. Imagination is brought into play thru the decision of how to get from A to B. With just a little time and creativity you can see the (effect or affect) imagination has on our views of traveling.
All through history imagination has played a role in how and where people travel; one place this can be most easily seen is in our literature. Short stories are a quick fun way to find out what others have thought about traveling. Short stories can show us sides of traveling that we might never have noticed. They can also show us the unpleasant sides in such a way that we don’t run in fear. In the short story “Richard Corey” Edwin Robinson shows us thru the seemingly perfect life of the main character Richard Corey that there is always more