The Power Of Imagination

You can imagine that you are rich, or traveling the universe, or be the president of the world, or have a secret room full of gold, or whatever you wish and choose and desire. You can do this regardless of your life situation, at night, in prison, maybe even in daydreaming. So why should you ever be sad about something? No matter if you're sick or poor or lonely or in whatever trouble you are in, you can always imagine something wonderful and great, imagine yourself to experience something wonderful and great. Why ever complain, why ever feel not satisfied? You could imagine the perfect life.
The answer by many will be: 'because something that is imagined is not as strong, as powerful, as intense, has not the same impact on the mind and the senses, as something that is very much real'. 'Imagining yourself to be married to a pop idol is not the same as this being really the case'.
But this is not true. It's like giving a child a bicycle and saying, if you ride this bicycle, you can get farther and easier ahead to destinations you might hardly reach by foot, and the child tries to ride the bicycle but falls down after a few meters and is hurt, and says, 'this is much worse than going by foot'. But this only happened because the kid did not know yet how to properly use a bicycle. It has to learn it.
And the same way goes for human imagination. You have to learn how to use your imagination. If you managed to do so, imagining yourself to be married to a pop star or being rich or a galactic traveler will not only feel as powerful and intense as wonderful as if this would really be the case, it will feel *better*, much much better and more intense than the real thing. So exercise your imagination, learn how to use it, spend time on it, a lot of time, and you will slowly get to this point. And then you will be free of whatever situation you are in in real life and you can always escape to your imagination wherever you are, however you feel, no matter what problems you are in.
Of course, the first step in learning how to imagine things properly is to believe that this is true, that human imagination is really stronger than any real world experience you could be in.
Artist of all ages, consciously or subconsciously always knew this. Do not songs, movies, books touch you in more profound and deeper ways that your everyday experience? This is because they aim at your imagination, not at your "real world". Is not a song about heartbreak much more pleasurable than real heartbreak? Can not a love song be more faithful and true than a romantic affair you experienced in real life? Of course this is so. And this is the power of imagination.
So who cares about sadness and trouble. Train your imagination, learn to imagine properly.
And you will become free.