A piece I wrote on my favourite gadget as a part of my organisation's blog.

As grownups, we miss a very innocent and beautiful perspective on life. The complexities trouble us so much that we miss out on the simplicities.

My favourite gadget is the hypothetical transmogrifier box that Calvin thinks he has invented, in the comics ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ by Bill Watterson. It is a simple box which Calvin says can transform anyone into someone else.

It is a reflection of our own childhood when we saw the world through the kaleidoscope of our fantasies and dreams. It is the same intuition that showed us elephants in clouds and giants in shadows.

His parents, no doubt, don’t understand it, or in fact, any of his “inventions”; they are grownups. His only confidante in his experiments with the transmogrifier is Hobbes, his make – believe pet – tiger, which is “actually” a stuffed toy.

At a deeper level, the transmogrifier is a manifestation of the latent desire within each of us to change the world around us into what we assume to be better. Needless to say, the world never changes.