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Ah, where have I heard that before? As a child, I was always told that I had an overactive imagination and I was happy to sit in bed and read until it was too dark to see any more.

Teaching in Japan, I was always so happy to see students who dared to stand out from the crowd but then so sad as I learned that they would soon be taught they had to conform.

Here’s to thinking too much and sticking out like a sore thumb!

Cheers,
Dana

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Add in other folks, however, and things get fracking awesome. I think this is why I enjoy pen-and-paper RPGs so much – interactive fiction comes much more naturally to me than what I come up with on my own.

I love this line, by the way. I’m making a poster of it once I finish this comment:

“A blank page is one truly safe place where anything can happen – and you make that anything happen.”

Great post, James.

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LOL….or “you live in your head”…..don’t they know it’s a really fun place? Spherically magical and logical too. Creative. What do other people do? What on earth do they put up there? What kind of film do THEY see? Is it all linear and straight? I think it sometimes gets ironed and pressed out way too early. I have had to go in and unlock the the door, coax it out again so many times that I want to scream at all the adults…what, more cubicle workers is that what you want? Sheep? Is that what you’re growing? That little one there is actually a pirate, this one a samurai…step back….and that one a ballerina mountain climber…aughh get away, at least let me have them for an hour.
“Over active” imagination… pooh….don’t get me started…….

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Screw normal pants. That’s all I have to say about that. Own your weird pants.

@James – I have met Stephen King, and he’s this awesome, wry, cuddly old guy. I kind of want him to be my uncle. Chuck Palahniuk, however, is a scary scary dude. I don’t think he’s fully working with ‘imagination,’ if you know what I mean.

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And that is a smart thing to say – “it’s okay to be the ugly duckling”.

Because we all know how the story turned out. Think back to all of the cool kids you knew, who got picked first for dodge ball.

I’m not sure about you. But where I live, well, they work for *me* now. Thinking differently can take you to places that groupthink cannot ever hope to reach.

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I’m constantly telling people “It’s okay to be the ugly duckling.”

I’m different. WAY different. And I spent many years trying to blend in. Then one day I had this conversation with myself that went:

Me to myself: “What difference does it make? You do just as well as they do, and sometimes you do it better.”

Myself to me: “But I’m tired of getting picked last in dodge ball.”

Me to myself: “Six grade is over.”

Myself to me: “Ooooh!”

I seriously think three-year-olds have it right. They don’t care what anyone else thinks. They haven’t been domesticated yet.

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I have a sixteen year old who also has been labeled with an “overactive imagination” and it is now getting her in trouble; although it shouldn’t be. Dealing with the school system on this matter is almost futal. Thankfully her father and I both enjoy her overactive imagination and want her to use this strength to her advantage; no matter what others say.

Have a great day!

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