Your IMAGINATION - Your FUTURE

Your IMAGINATION - Your FUTURE

  

Imagination is the forerunner of all the creations of man. Man’s thoughts precede everything he does. Before our bodies move an inch, our minds have run a mile! By the time we speak a word, hundreds of its synonyms have been uttered in our minds already. Imagination, though unseen, is the power that creates and controls the scenes of the world! It is God’s special gift to every human to help man project into the future and create that future he desires. Through the means of visions, dreams and goals setting, we are able to create things that are not in existence or re-organize what is present. The Contents of our imagination now are the details of the future we will live.

200 years ago, before the construction of the Channel Tunnel, travelling on the English Waters (of Great Britain) was grossly uncomfortable and dangerous. The weather there was harsh and stormy; making the journey sickening and slow for even the best of traveller. Then in 1802, a French mining engineer, Albert Mathieu, went crazy with his imagination and came up with the most ridiculous solution; a proposal to tunnel under the English Channel, with illumination from oil lamps, horse-drawn coaches, and an artificial island mid-Channel for changing horses! In lay man’s terms what he meant was “let’s dig a tunnel, several feet under the water and light the dark tunnel up with oil lamps so that we can travel under the water with horse drawn coaches. If we cant travel on the waters we can travel under it!”  He was mercilessly ridiculed and his idea shot down as impossible, but the possibility of this wonder project won’t leave the imagination of other engineers, who year after years worked on this dream.

Finally in 1994, after 6 years of hard work by 15,000 workers and $21 billion spent, a tunnel under water just like Mathieu imagined was built; only now it’s a rail tunnel, better, faster with all the present day amenities!  The Channel Tunnel or The Chunnel as often called, exists today because Albert Mathieu dared to imagine a non-existent solution to the challenge of his time! The Chunnel connects the island of Great Britain with mainland France. It is a wonder train that travels 250 feet below the seabed! Its roughly the size of 8 football pitches and the trains travel as fast as 180 mph! Millions of people have journeyed in fabulous style and comfort in this under water train. Some of the trains transport cars or trucks, sometimes with their drivers sitting right in their vehicles! It is one of the most amazing engineering feats of the 20th century and one of the 7 Modern Wonders of the World.

 

Imagination, though unseen, creates the scenes of the world. Whatever it is we desire to do as a group of people or as individuals, it first has to exist in our imagination. Whether it be a grand project like the Chunnel or everyday victory like passing an exam or marketing a product; your imagination controls the outcome! Vivid imagination always precedes wonders in life. Whatever battles we fight in our world, we’ve already fought them in the imagination, for the mind is the battle field of life. The secret to success then is to discover how to use the powers of your imagination to create that which is yet to exist in your life, how to bring into the physical world the wonders that lie unseen in you. Like the story of the Chunnel, the story of humanity can be summarised in one sentence: challenges abound everywhere, but men with great will and vivid imagination always overcome!

The future belongs, NOT to the rich, NOT to the mighty, BUT TO THE IMAGINATIVE!