Recently I had the opportunity to spend time with my nieces, especially with the little one who is about 7 years old, at present. Every time I spend time talking to her, I have a strong feeling that I'm learning things that are more advanced to my knowledge, somethings that I even fail to understand despite a grown up. Its not her little fantasy stories of the dolls that she plays with, its how much she articulates and builds information blocks so that she hopes that she could bridge the communication barrier between us, making me understand that her fantasies can makes sense to me.
Sometimes it is very funny to listen to her speaking, but most of the times I reflect upon my own childhood memories of playing with my action figures that I used to store inside my shoe box, which my dad loves calling it as my 'Pandora's Box' every time I open it to play during holidays or on summer vacations. For quite a lot of years, I quench the thirst of my imaginations by playing with them. But that was then, later on, I ditched my Pandora's Box for video game consoles.
But right now, in between a confined software job and as a sci-fi movie fan, often I'd get caught within my imaginary worlds while questioning various possibilities of science and technology that makes sense in the real world, also in a hope that my imaginations can one day shape into original ideas that can contribute my few cents in building a better world.
I feel that I have (re)created a Pandora's Box, a place inside me, through which I'm trying to run away into my imaginations in a hope I can one day bridge that gap of 'insanity' and try to make sense to the real world, with ideas I could create from my imaginations, just like my little niece surprises me with her fantasies which leaves me with a realization of some sort, every single time I meet her.
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