A flickr contact I know posted recently about wanting to be a creative person. She yearned to create something great and powerful that would have a tremendous impact on people. She expressed that she did not know how to go about doing this, but she felt she had great art inside of her. The problem was, she didn’t know what it was.
It is hard sometimes to be content with what we are.
Everyone is creative, I feel this is the purpose of human life. To create something new. I think this purpose can be thwarted when it is tied to ego; when it is aligned with how you perceive others perceiving you.
I aim to try being creative with the intention purely to create. I think if your intention is to be famous, or a ‘great’ artist, or to have an impact on others, it will continue to block what is inside you. If you create for yourself and as if you were the only person in the world, it frees you to bring forth your creative light. It frees you to produce.
that said…it is hard sometimes to ignore your ego, to wish to have people know who you are, to wish for glory and praise. I understand that. I wasted years because of feelings like that. Well, not quite a waste because those years taught me that, at the end of the day, those feelings frustrated and blocked my writing more than aided or motivated me to write. So after a while I was able to let them go.
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