Over the last few weeks I have become consumed by the thought of creativity. When I was young I was told my art wasn't good in art class. I found myself hating art class. As I grew up I went to business school and struggled to maintain my grades because the material simply didn't interest me. However I ended up graduating with my business degree because it felt safe.
It's been 2 years since I've graduated with my bachelor's and I can't help but wonder how it felt safe for me to go into a field that I had absolutely no interest in. A field that went against all of my inner desires. At one point during my college career my parents asked me if this was what I really wanted to do but I had said goodbye to my inner child creativity a long time ago to turn back at that point, or so I thought.
What if it's not too late to channel our inner creativity we once knew when we were a child? Simply because someone told us it was bad doesn't really mean anything. Who knows, maybe someone else thought our work was good but was too afraid to say so after someone else said otherwise.
I want to rediscover the things I should have discovered as a child but never did out of fear. I want to rediscover art, music, and writing. I want to have the courage to voice my ideas at an office meeting. I want to awaken the right side of my brain.
The only way I will be able to do that is to let go of the fear of being wrong. After all, what is "wrong"? Who is the person out there making decisions on what is right and wrong? I say we all stop buying into the idea of right and wrong when it comes to art and creativity. It's time we all start expressing what feels right to us in the form of art. I don't know about you but I do not want to wake up when I'm 80 years old and discover I never drew anything because I was scared. That I never attempted to write that book because I was scared. That I never wrote that song because I was fearful of what the world would say about it.
I'm done with being scared of what the world has to say about anything I do. It's time I start being afraid of what will happen when I wake up at 80 and discover I didn't do any of the things I wanted to.
What experiences have possibly caused you to turn off your inner creativity?
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