Do you think you are creative? SURE YOU ARE

Do you ever wonder sometimes if you could be creative? This is a question I always ask myself whenever I attend fashion shows, painting gigs, poetic competitions or some other events which highlights one's creativity. My answer would always be "I dont think I am creative enough".

But honestly aren't we all given crayons in kindergarten? Where did it go wrong? When you hit puberty they take away the crayons ad replace them with dry, uninspiring books on history, georgaphy, algebra, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' just a tiny voice telling you, "I'd like my crayons back, please."

I think everyone get's bitten by the creative bug through their adulthood. You don't know where the itch came from, it's almost like it just arrived on your doorstep, uninvited. Until now you were quite happy holding down a real job, being a regular person........ UNTIL NOW.

You don't know if you're any good or not, but you think you could be. And the idea terrifies you! The problem is, even if you are good, you know nothing about this kind of business. You don't know any publishers or agents or venture capitalists or any of these fancy kind of folk.

Besides, if you paint a picture, what if you can't find an art gallery to showcase your masterpiece? If you invent a new piece of world-changing software, what if you can't find a financial backer? If you write a cartoon screen play, what if you can't find a producer to produce it? You've always worked real hard your whole life, you'll be dammed if you'll put all that effort into something if there ain't no pile of cash at the end of this dumb-ass rainbow.

Hmmm. That's not your tiny voice asking for the crayons back! That's your other voice, your adult voice, your boring and tedious voice trying to find a way to get the tiny crayon voice to shut the hell-up.

Your tiny voice doesn't want you to sell something!! Your tiny voice wants you to make something. There's a huge difference! Your tiny voice doesn't give a damm about art galleries, financial backers or venture capitalist or Hollywood producers.

GO AHEAD AND MAKE SOMETHING. Make something really special. Make something amazing that will really blow the mind of anybody who sees it.

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and HONEST and TRUE, you will succeed eventually.

The tiny voice didn't show-up because it decided you need more money, or you need to hang-out with movie stars. Your tiny voice came back because your SOUL somehow depends on it. There's something you haven't said, something you haven't done, some light that needs to be switched on, and it needs to be taken cared of. NOW.

So you will have to listen to that tiny voice or it will die...taking a big chunk of you along with it.

They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in kindergarten, why fear them now?