Giggle & Smile
Recently, Lori Hahn wrote about struggling with writer’s block. She challenged her readers to give her a topic to write about; I challenged her to write about the one thing that makes her most happy. It still remains to be seen if Lori will take me up on my challenge (especially since I just e-mailed it to her through a comment about twenty minutes ago and she’s probably asleep like any sane person would be at this hour). Still, I thought about something: Maybe I should answer that call too.
After thinking about it, I came up with this answer: The one thing that really makes me happy in life is my ability to create. I’ve always thought my hands were my best tool, but I never really understood why. Now that I think about it, it makes sense: If I can’t create something in my day, I get bored. Usually when I get bored, I get destructive. When I get destructive, I create a mess. Hey, it’s a form of creation, just not a good one.
But moving away from that thought, I think my ability to create pushes me to excel in a lot of different fields of my life. When it comes to my relationships and friendships, creation is what helps strengthen the bonds I have with people. When I create dialogue, I’m able to exchange ideas or criticism, and that creates thought. When I physically create something, like a video or a blog, it’s often met with a mixture of praise and criticism—both of which feed fuel to my fire.
I think a lack of creativity is found throughout the world, and those who have brilliant minds play off of that absense of creativeness. Those who are imaginative create hit television sitcoms; those who lack it are usually the ones contributing to TV ratings (we call them Nielsen families). So the ability to create, to me, is a security thing, and that in itself is a motivator. After all, who has more money: those who create Family Guy, or those who watch it on the TV?
In any case, my ability to create is what keeps me going and what makes me happy. I wake up every day wondering what I can create today, and I go to sleep at night wondering what I’ll create tomorrow (and I do it all very subconsciously, so even I’m not aware that’s how I’m thinking). Creativity: It’s a pretty cool thing.
In my past life, I was a tree or something. If not a tree, something that grew old and didn't move very much. I'm pretty convinced of this.