#62 Appreciation: Creativity

Creativity is precious! It is an element that lead to a different tone of life. When refer to creativity, I am not restricting it to the art sense of creativity, but rather is an ability to think on a different note.

Using creativity in a good way, most of the time, it as the domino effect of being inspirational, funny, amusement and amazement. My mum told me she used to have fun listening to what I composed when I was sitting behind the passenger seats and singing about cars, vehicles and other transport. Of course, those intuitive, on-the-spot creation ability happens to most of the kid, before we grown up and being trained to think twice.

As we become teenager, adolescence then adult, being mature is the most distinct attributes as compared to a children. Because of our ability to think and to judge, complement with the social structure, peer pressure and the realm of reality, we are consciously restricting our thoughts when we deal with things. This is not totally a bad thing, but at times, it is quite a lost that we are gradually loosing the creativity that we used to have when we are younger.

Watched an episode of Animation (yes, I am still watching 'cartoons' in the eye of adults), and it sparked me on the interpretation of Thomas A Edison's quote “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”. We always interpreted it as hard work usually will be the key to success, hard work matters etc, but the coach in the animation mentioned that the quote can be implied in a mean way that "one might not be able to succeed regardless how hard he/she had tried just because he/she is lacking of that 1%" (I know it sounds really negative and mean from the word but is really funny in the context of that episode). I just found that statement being creative in the sense that it interprets in a way that not the general public will think of because all these while, we have been "instilled" to think in a certain matter.

Release the creative soul in you =)

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