You are you know. Creativity is in your DNA. The challenge is to find where your creativity lies because it has to be expressed. For some, their creativity lies in traditional areas such as painting or writing or composing/performing music. However, those are not the only expressions of creativity, just the more obvious. They define ‘fine arts’.
Never limit what the word means. Webster says that create means: to cause to come into existence; originate. One of the definitions of creative is: stimulating the imagination. Nowhere does it limit the scope of the word. Is a cook creative. Of course otherwise our eating options would be severely limited. How about a seamstress? Again, of course. Yet there aren’t many that would immediately think of these activities as ‘creative’. It is the passion of the ‘artist’ that is the creator.
Related to creativity is the word that defines it – ‘artist’ which is also a limited word in people’s thinking. Yet, it is the artist that typically introduces the new to us. But artist can be applied to a cook or seamstress as well as a composer or painter. Unfortunately conventional definitions, including Webster, does define ‘artist’ in a limited fashion in terms of the fine arts.
To find your area of creativity look to what you love to do when you have ‘free’ time. You need to understand and appreciate that you are creative and your task/responsibility is to find your expression. When you don’t share your creativity then you ignore the gift God placed in you. And you ignore the place you fill. Never forget that your creativity can and probably does stimulate another’s creativity. It is a ripple effect……
