{"id":84,"date":"2024-12-25T01:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T01:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2025-03-12T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:29:32","slug":"can-you-lose-your-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Can you lose your imagination?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before you start laughing I want you to think about it. Can you remember a time when you had more ideas? It does matter if they were off the wall or even made sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used to have too many ideas. My imagination wouldn&#8217;t stop. I&#8217;ve got notebooks full of stuff. Looking at some of it recently made me wonder what happened to THAT guy. I&#8217;m much older now and have more responsibilities and a full time job. I&#8217;ve had that for many years now. I think somewhere along the way I stopped using my imagination and started relying on my knowledge. It was around that time that I stopped having time to do things like draw, write creatively, or play music. All things I loved doing when I was younger and didn&#8217;t have the responsibilities of adulting. I still have ideas but find they are more bland now then they were. Not that they are bad but they are more linear and tell a more direct story without as many twists and turns. This ,to me, seems less exciting or at least less thrilling to me while writing it then it had when I was younger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tried drawing from those ideas and tried to do some actual drawing but my mind couldn&#8217;t come up with the mental pictures. So I had no idea where to start the image. Like I had lost my imagination. This is why I pose the question&#8230; Can you lose your imagination?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you start laughing I want you to think about it. Can you remember a time when you had more ideas? It does matter if they were off the wall or even made sense. I used to have too many<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/?p=84\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graphiccaptions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}