I
was walking down a twilight street and only the moon could be seen as vivid as daylight.
The road was rough and it was blurry. Suddenly Cheshire cat appeared in front
and winked at me, saying “I have a solution to that problem of yours. Just swap
foreign debt instead of government deficit. It’s just as easy as that”. How
bizarre an instance. And gosh, his smile was as sarcastic as I almost thought that
I have become that naive Alice, lost in the Wonderland.
7
o’clock in the morning, the alarm struck and I woke up from the most
enlightening dream in years. Getting up hastily to write down what he’d said,
for dreams fade away so quickly. I really didn’t want to let go of the
instruction the cat had given me. I was stuck writing my thesis on some
annoying debt thingy, for a long while. As you probably have figured out, I am
an economics student. Whatever.
This
occurrence of dream was a combination of imagination and knowledge. If I hadn’t
known what actually foreign debt or those jargons meant, I wouldn’t understand
the hint Cheshire cat had been conveying me in my dream. If I couldn’t imagine
a cat talking to me, I wouldn’t encounter Cheshire. Thus, imagination and
knowledge build on each other. As you learn more, you broaden your
imaginational sphere. And as you imagine more the knowledge you have obtained becomes
more yours. Thus these two should be like a nexus that is inseparable in order to
become a powerful union unless you choose only one of’em.
However,
what the cat instructed me in my dream was gonna get wasted unless I do
something with it. It had no value until I act to that very idea, to make it
real. To embody it. If you don’t act proactively even if you have the knowledge
and that precious creative mind, they will all go to waste, just as if I had
forgotten that dream of mine.
As
you see, whatever knowledge you have obtained and whatever ideas you have
created in your imagination, unless you use that, apply that and accomplish
that, it will remain an illusion or will get lost. Just like the highest bidder
in an auction suffers the winner’s curse, the
education we gained through hard work and imagination we had in our creative
minds will have no value on it’s own.
Now
try imagining an auction where there will be no winner’s curse. The higher you
bid the more benefit you will sow. There will be no limit to it unless you put
one. But you will not bid with money, for one thing. You will bid with your
imagination, knowledge and foremost of all, perseverance, hard-will. This is
the AUCTION FOR FORTUNE.
So
let’s bid and I tell you my friends, to “keep moving forward” and bid higher
and higher as the most creative and knowledgeable mind had once entrusted us.
