What is creativity? Some would say a mental process in which we formulate new ideas based on prior knowledge. . . But doesn't it seem like sometimes that creativity just comes from nowhere and gives you an AMAZING idea that you "never would have thought of."
Isn't there something DIVINE about those creative thoughts that seem to jump into your mind at just the right time or sometimes even the worst time possible. I believe that creativity is an external phenomena that waits around to help us out when we need it. But how often do we really have time to exert our creativity. We get so caught up in our world, that many people don't even have HOBBYS for their creative energy to be channeled into. If you were to imagine your creativity as a helpful spirit, that was just waiting around for it's time to shine and help you come up with something new and extraordinary, can you imagine how BORED that spirit would be as you participated daily in the cattle-call and went to SCHOOL, and went to WORK and remained BORED and unhappy? This question isn't for the artists, singers, or poets, but this question is for YOU working (or planning on working) the 9-5 desk job at something that you aren't really interested in doing but it promises a paycheck.
I would say that we are all here for a reason on a particular path but so many of us have been strayed away from our passions that we don't even know what were really GOOD at and what were really capable of. When we were young we had so many dreams for what we wanted to be in the future that we traded in for a career path that promised MONEY at the end of boring, pre-paved road.
I know SO MANY people who have natural talent and skill that everybody else in the world can see and if they were to acknowledge it, they would surely be on the way to their destiny, but instead they are studying BUSINESS so that they can work on Wall Street and "make the big bucks." (just an example)
Isn't creativity necessary for INNOVATION? Isn't innovation necessary for PROGRESS? Aren't we in a state right now in the world where we are starting to realize that a lot of the GREAT ideas of the past are a little outdated and are starting to take a toll on the world we live in?
Don't the school systems that we currently abide by STIFLE the creativity of children?
Think about little Suzie that just can't stay still and she always gets up and dances in the middle of her 3rd grade teacher talking, or Damien who just can't stop talking and disrupting the class because he gets everyone's attention. Isn't Suzie a natural dancer who is destined to be on Broadway? Isn't Damien a future PR rep or lobbyist, leader or maybe even the President of the United States (if they would get their shit together). What about Jose, he's an artist. . he's not so interested in Geography but the pictures that he draws tell stories . . . . Everybody is different, but the education system that were currently in wants everybody to be the SAME, and if you're different you have A.D.D. and you need suppressive drugs.
The students that do exactly what the teacher says and play by the rules are the ones that become A students. Yes Johnny, stay inside the BOX and you win!
But when you get older. . they'll be asking you to think outside the box, asking you to reconnect with a spirit of creativity that you've LONG lost.
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