Day 10 - I for In

"Did you ever give it a thought? Imagine probably comes out of the word image." She asks him while attempting to write her self imposed five hundred words of the day.

He smiles. "Oh there goes your food for thought. Imagine indeed sounds like it sprouted out of image"

"Right? Like Image plus the preposition in equals to imagine. Wow, am I cool or what?"

"You are cuckoo"

"It's all in how you imagine anyway. Someone's cool is someone's cuckoo"

He laughs "Where do you get these whacky thoughts out of?"

"In" she replies

"In as in?"

"Inside - the head, heart, brain, soul, spirit....I don't think I can name one source or if all these sources are synonyms of the same source. Come to think of it, isn't it cool how we live a whole entire life inside our heads? Or hearts or what ever - this perception that bifurcates and sorts everything we come into contact with? - This is good, this is bad, this is awesome, this is quirky, this is painful...it is as if we give birth to a billion perceptions and look at them from all angels and decided what we want to name them, like we would contemplate on the name of an offspring. And once we decide upon the name, it transforms into what we decide to call it...This head of ours is a double dang. Right?"

"Not sure about every head out there, but yours, most definitely is a double dang -what ever that is supposed to mean"

"I want to call the head as  'Imagine'"

"Go ahead. Call it what ever you please"

"But, just may be - if we call it as imagine, we get to use it for what it is supposed to be used. To imagine, to stretch and skew every emotion we decide to live and imagine some wisdom and sense out of it. Come to think of it, don't you think we'll all live in harmony if we let imagination take over our judgement and let empathy flow into the In?"

"You are obsessed with empathy these days!"

She smiles. "You are observing these days. And letting your imagination pave way to empathy. Like Einstein  said - "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Did you ever imagine how he must have meant it?"

"Never did, but may be he meant being empathetic is more important than being intelligent"

"See, we live it all inside there, seeing it the way we intend to see it. And I think I found out my reason for insomnia"

He laughs "Which is?"

"I am 'in' all the time. In love that is. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because of love - Leo Tolstoy"

"So you fall in and out of love all the time you mean?"

"Bingo - see how you see it is not how I mean it? I fall into love over and over. Sometimes with the humming bird that flutters on the other side of the bay window and sometimes with the child that ran and held the door open for me at the sandwich place and sometimes with the sandwich"

"what did you say you were? Cool?"

"Yes"

"That can only be cuckoo"

"As you like it sire - it is all in there. In your own head!"

And thus, she goes back to doing what she does best - looking inside, to add a little 'in' to the images she looks at.