If you desire to create, please find a way to create.
The world needs more creatives in it.
The world progresses via creativity. Whether it’s the arts or sciences – creativity and all that it might produce expands human knowledge, grows our understanding within and without, and changes the world for the better.
Sadly, there are too many things that knock creativity today. The need to conform and be “normal” tends to shunt creative types to a place of being abnormal and odd. Seeking to enjoy work through creativity as part of life is scoffed at by far too many.
This is not just about art. Anyone who is an inventor, scientist, teacher, explorer, or other creative pursuer tends to get more disrespect than praise. We give more gravitas to opinionated celebrities, athletes, and politicians than teachers, scientists, and genuine intellectuals.
There are too many messages about the starving artist, work being dull and uninteresting, do/be what is expected by the majority, and the like. Why create when you are discouraged from creating in all sorts of ways?
Do you desire to create? If so – you should create. Don’t deprive the world of your gifts. The world needs your creativity.
Why does your creativity matter?
Inspiration comes from the most unexpected places.
For example – while reading a random post about a fan theory regarding the Whedonverse (before the ugliness that has since tainted elements of it), I received inspiration. That inspiration opened a door I had been working to open for a long time – and from there, my Void Incursion sci-fi series began.
My Forgotten Fodder sci-fi series was initially inspired by my thinking about the Clone Wars, and Obi-Wan’s line about them in the first Star Wars – and what I thought they would be (before the films and cartoons brought them to us). A single idea – what happens when your clones built for war have no war to fight? – sparked the underlying notion for my story.
Did the things that inspired me lessen my creativity? No. Is it possible what I have created might inspire someone else? Yes.
This is a huge part of why if you desire to create something, you shouldn’t deprive the world of it. Because you never know how what you create might inspire the creation of another.
Do you realize just how far humankind has advanced in the last century? Look back to 1922, and it’s pretty astounding how many things we have and take for granted now were inconceivable then. More than in any other 100-year period, new creations have changed the world like never before.
If you desire to create, what you create might have a much broader impact than you can currently imagine. Don’t you think the world deserves that?
Why should you create if you desire to create?
It’s very easy to give up on the world. Humankind. And more.
Between climate change and people denying the reality of it; a global pandemic that won’t be contained due in part to selfish individualism; an utterly senseless war in Ukraine; and tons of far-right ugliness, it can feel rather hopeless.
As bad as most of these are, we still each have the power to overcome them. You and I are far more empowered than we tend to realize. Thus, each of us is individually capable of using a desire to create to do incredible things.
Which leads to another false narrative. Selfishness. Too much gest ascribed to selfishness that, on the surface, could be construed that way. But realistically – it’s not selfish in the long term.
True selfishness involves intent. Intentional hurt or harm that you cause without remorse is true selfishness. Self-care before a sacrifice of any sort is not selfish.
Being your truest, most genuine self is not selfish, either. And that is where creating if you desire to create comes in. You should not deprive the world of anything you have to offer.
Why? Because you are the only one who can offer it.
What you desire to create comes from you alone
There are lots of similarities to be found across fantasy novels and movies, superhero comics and films, and sci-fi adventures. Yet despite this – each is a unique individual creation.
Can you imagine what movies would look like today if Star Wars hadn’t blended sci-fi, fantasy, and the hero’s journey like it did in 1977? Do you realize that your cell phone might not exist had it not been inspired by the communicators in Star Trek?
Whatever device you are reading these words on was the result of someone’s desire to create. And that is why it is so important not to deny it or deprive the world of it.
Lots of factors go into the things that make our world how it is today. But if someone didn’t pursue their desire to create, they would not be.
It doesn’t matter what you desire to create – stories, novels, spice blends, paintings, robotics, opening the minds of children, places of sanctuary, or anything else you can imagine – create it. Don’t deprive the world of your creation.
There is nobody else in your head, heart, or soul. Thus, you alone can create what you desire to create. Even if someone has something similar to create – it’s not what you will create.
You never know what your creation could inspire from another. And that is why if you desire to create, you should create. You don’t know how not creating what you desire to create might deprive the world of something amazing that could improve many, many lives.
You are worthy and deserving
Finally – you are worthy and deserving of creating what you desire to create. It doesn’t matter where you come from, your background, or anything else – you are worthy and deserving of your desire to create and share that with the world.
Don’t deprive the world of your gifts because you don’t think you deserve to share them. You absolutely do. Write, paint, cook, design, teach, educate, or whatever – create!
And even if you don’t care to share – create what you desire to create for yourself. Because you are as worthy and deserving of it as it is of you.
Everyone is a creator of one sort or another. What do you love to make/create?
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