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Day Three Hundred and Sixty-Four:  Demanding Creativity.

I always hear people say that they are not creative, or that they wish they could be more creative, and something that always confuses me is that being creative is not dedicated to art.  My mom is creative when making solutions to scheduling conflicts within the family and that hardly as anything to do with art.  People are creative when they design the magnets on their fridges, or how they organise, and those could be defined as art but I don’t think that Creativity, capital C, can be confined.  Creativity permeates all areas of everyday life.

Creativity is meant to be challenging, and since I’m in the business of challenging myself I find myself attempting to be creative more and moe, and within everything I do I don’t mind that heart-pounding moment of terror right before I take a risk, because in that moment I learn that I have the ability to actually go ahead and do something, and that’s courage, and that’s pretty coo.  So as next term is my most creative semester I want to try and do things a bit differently in the spirit of being creative in all aspects of my life.

Maybe I just believe that Creativity is important because I believe that everyone is their best at their most spontaneous and raw moments, even the people who work better with structure could use a little creative thinking in their day, problem solving is just a way to be creative, and we all do that on a daily basis.

It may seem simple, and useless, but just incorporating a small creative change to your routine might make a change that will benefit you.  And maybe this whole bust is bust, but I honestly don’t care if no one takes m advice about creativity, because being creative is the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes, and that alone is worth it, even just for me.

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