Executing your imaginations

“And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. Choosing to live in narrow spaces can lead to a form of mental agoraphobia, and that brings its own terrors. I think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.”
-J.K. Rowling for Harvard University Commencement Address

For the moment:
Over My Head – The Fray

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I suppose in some ways, those are the reasons why I do what I do. In the many things that I do.

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*Speech above was forwarded to me by one of RA’s volunteer content provider. Thank you. More excerpts will be used in later posts.