One thing a Child may be Better at than an Adult

I sometimes reminisce about my childhood and laugh about how easily I was entertained by the simplest things. Jumping up and down could entertain me for hours. We had our imagination to help us out. When we played we imagined something was happening, was present or we were somewhere else. We knew that something wasn't there, or that we weren't surrounded by wolves, and that in fact we were still in the back yard. So what happened to our imagination? Ours was so vast back then that we knew what was real and what was not, but doesn't it feel like we kind of lost our imagination somewhere along the road of growing up?

I mean sure we have writers, artist and all sorts of occupations that involve the use of out imagination, but i think that when we are children we have a more abstract/articulate imagination, while when we mature our imagination starts taking knowledge into effect, the more knowledge we acquire the small our imagination gets. What we learn eventually effects our imagination and we start incorporating our knowledge with our imagination. As a child we know little, and therefor our imagination is broader.

I say that movie makers start asking children for movie ideas because an amazing amount of them are lame!