If more of the world’s population created just for the spirit of creating, would the world overall be better off?
I think so.
With creativity being a big avenue of self expression, I can’t help but think that having opportunities and outlets for genuine, heart felt self expression would allow us to feel free in the creative moment. Free to write, paint, draw, run, climb, knit, film, sing, build, share us in our own way. If for no other moments in our day, allowing the flow of creativity to emerge from within ourselves would help release pent up thoughts and feelings that might otherwise have to be kept quietly within due to our circumstances, beliefs or conditions.
I have met children who don’t know how to build, what building even is. They likely haven’t been given opportunities to explore not just a set of building blocks or cardboard boxes but their ideas on how they can put things together and end up with structures. I have noted in those kids a lack of confidence in themselves and a lack of curiosity for their world. I see a link between their lack of confidence and the lack of opportunity to explore. Seeking opportunity is an important step in creative expression. There is love in adults giving opportunity and time to children. I see how not having either hurts children.
I imagine people who lash out at others or the world and think they too don’t know what inner knowledge and curiosity they have. They hurt too. Would they be so angry if they were allowed to create? To tinker and explore what speaks to them? To play? I believe they would be lighter, even if just a little bit.
I am scratching the surface here but I think its a surface worth scratching…
