Without the ability to be creative we would have no thirst for knowledge, and we would still be stuck in a primitive mindset, only worrying about the basics of life, food and shelter. But because we have the ability to think freely and to be able to use this free imaginative thinking to create ideas from which we eventually gain knowledge. Imagination is the spark for when knowledge seems to be the flame.

Before their was ever an automobile being driven on a road, there was a person imagining how to create some kind of tool in order to get from two different places, in a faster amount of time than walking or horseback. Before Edison's version of the light bulb, there were other inventors imagining ways to create sources of light without having to use fire. Without any imagination, humanity would never ask the question stated simply, why? IT is important that we never lose our creativity and imaginations, even as we grow older, and are looked down upon by society for doing so, keep asking the age old question of "why"!