Pretend This is a Post
A post goes here. So, let’s all pretend that there is one here.
Because I’m not sure I feel like writing a post today. But, I need to, as you know, in order to hit 1000 consecutive days of blogging in December of this year.
So, let’s pretend that this is a post.
While we’re pretending, let’s also pretend this is a really, really good post. You know, unlike the stuff you usually read here.
Let’s pretend that this is one of the top ten posts you’d link to if you kept a list of the top ten posts you like.
So, this is that good of a post.
On our collective imaginations, of course.
But, maybe that’s what really matters?
After all, if everyone thinks that something is good, doesn’t that make it good? Now, we’re not talking good versus evil here, but good versus bad. But, not bad as in evil but bad as in awful or just not good. That is, bad being the opposite of good where good is not the opposite of evil.
Got it?
Okay, so we are all going to believe that this is a superb post. Not superb? Just good? Okay, I’ll settle for good because I’m really not trying here. So, good will be good enough.
On the other hand, as long as we are only imagining that this post is good, I don’t see why we can’t simply imagine this post is superb. After all, it’s not like it takes more effort to imagine this imaginary post as superb rather than simply good. It takes the same amount of effort. It’s in our imagination, after all. I’m not sure anyone has suggested there are different levels of imagination, have they? We don’t tell kids to imagine their ideal pet, but to imagine at level 7 rather than level 3. Do we? No one ever told me to imagine something at a different level.
How could your imagination be at different levels anyway? Someone might be more creative in their imagining, but that’s an assessment of creativity not imagination. So, I think there are not different levels of imagination; only different degrees of creativity.
As such, since I am suggesting we imagine this as a superb post rather than merely a good post, there is no creativity involved in that effort. You just have to imagine this as superb, not write a superb post of your own or imagine what might constitute a superb post or what I would have needed to write in order to make this a superb post. You need only imagine this is a superb post.
It’s easy. No creativity required. Thus, I say we all imagine that as a superb post rather than just a good post. Why settle for good when we can have something superb, right? Especially if it doesn’t cost us anything, no?
So, there you go. Just imagine this as a superb post and we’ll call it a day.
Nice post, no imagination needed! I can’t believe you are going for 1,000 days in a row! That is some effort indeed. I certainly have enough to say to do that, but no way do I have the time. Some days I purposely refuse to even power up my computers just so I can have a few more minutes of “free” time.
On another note, I have been reading your viral posts. Interesting concept. I am not sure I totally get it, but I think I’ll try it. I was going to read your “Bryan explains it better” link, but Bryan is long gone from the web it seems.
my imagination runs wild and it cant be trusted!