I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I feel as if my imagination never really went away. I started writing when I was 5, and before that, I apparently talked and made up stories like there's no tomorrow. This is helpful considering I'm responsible for one article each and every week; however, there are a few negatives to having a mind like this. PSA: I'm not a crazy person.
1. Imaginary Conversations
I learned in Communications Studies that this is a "helpful tool" when it comes to preparing yourself before talking to someone, but I have to disagree to some extent. Like, if I'm completely honest, I'll go over conversations in my head before, during and after, and each time it's different. For those that know me, you can imagine what a problem this becomes because I have a highly overly expressive face and use my hands so much to the point I probably couldn't talk without them.
So lets just take a moment here to imagine what this Mackenzie must look like to the outside world: nice blonde walking through the quad with her head moving around like its on a spring, eyebrows going crazy, looking like she's just talking to herself very intense and oh, BTW, did I mention sometimes accidentally mutter some of the words out loud? Oh, yeah. I'll just be behind someone, and I'm sure they're terrified when they hear me be all "Crazy, right?" or "..So rude." Even worse, the really cool, sassy part of my brain that prepares good comebacks and witty remarks apparently dies before and during and only works after. You all know exactly what I mean; Those excellent comebacks you'll literally never need again that would've been perfect 10 minutes ago..
2. Anxiety Levels About Most Things Are Through The Roof
If you don't text me back immediately to about five minutes after, you are dead to me. As in, I have now imagined four different scenarios in which you have killed yourself or have been killed. Just this morning, no one in my family had texted me yet, and I had already imagined how someone had broken in and somehow murdered them all. Or that they left me on purpose to go on our boating trip... #JustFamThings. But really, I will sit there and imagine all the different things that could go so incredibly wrong all the freaking time. It is probably a serious issue that needs to be addressed but hey, I suffer through. We're not talking normal, logical things. It's the most outlandish, terrifying and just plan weird problems. I've got to cut out these thriller flicks.
3. High Expectations
I feel like I shouldn't write this one because it makes me seem very cynical and down on life, but this is false. I just mean my imagination takes things to an absolutely unrealistic level. Like no, Mackenzie, you will not look like Cinderella every morning, noon and night, nor will there be music when you trek to class. You may be running like a crazy hot warrior in your mind at the gym, but in reality you are possibly flailing around as well as singing out loud. What can I say? I imagine life a lot bigger than it seems. Am I let down sometimes? I mean yeah, why aren't there any fireworks when I enter a room? Why doesn't anyone else burst into song trying to create a glorious musical number? Your guess is as good as mine, but I won't lie, this one kind of makes life a little worth living.
OK, so maybe an active imagination isn't such a bad thing, maybe it just makes me interesting and a little bit quirky? I mean, I like being a superstar writer extraordinaire in space every day, and is that really so bad?
