Creativity and Art.
You have to have a purpose for life. In the past, in our nomadic, tribal days, we had a clear purpose. Our lives would have been filled with hunting, gathering, creating tools and weapons, shelters and clothing, adornments and decoration, and cooking, playing and teaching children, and then rituals. It seems that it was a full and satisfying life to me. Certainly one I would have found fulfilling (even if it was full of danger, fear, disease, periodic starvation and death.
Modern life does not have the same appeal.
Some people turn to religion for their purpose but what gets me out of bed are two things. Firstly I have a desire to become involved, communicate and improve things in line with my philosophy (tolerance, freedom, equality, empathy, respect, responsibility …..). Secondly I enjoy creating and making things with meaning.
Writing enables me to do both of those things. It gets my head buzzing with ideas. I find it fulfilling, exciting and stimulating.
Writing gives my life purpose.
If I was a potter, artist, dancer, actor, musician ….. I believe I would feel equally alive.
I believe that creating, music, poems, art, dance, craft, tools, ideas, decoration, ….. anything, is firmly implanted in our psyche and plugs right in to a primitive centre in our spirit. It’s an essential part of our humanity. Without it we are less. That is why fundamentalists, like ISIS and the Nazis, try so hard to suppress it all. It is about life and they are about death.
I believe that if humans are not able to use their imagination and skills to create they die a little.
What you create will live beyond you and people will learn from your writings, as all books teach in their own way. Well I am off now, it has taken me hours to do the Christmas tree in the Living room, have to do the hall tree tomorrow. Supposed to go to the Hospice tomorrow for “Pain Clinic coffee morning”, that fall I had is taking effect now, never mind coffee morning. See you in the morning “Sleep Warm”.
Cheers Anna – You sleep well and take care. The only falling tonight should be to sleep.
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Creativity is a huge part of human nature. It provides us with purpose.
Reminds me of what DH Lawrence said …
“It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of our sympathetic consciousness, and it can lead our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead.”
Besides, it’s fun …
I must read some DH again. It’s been a long time.
Haha, Lady Chatterley 1963?
I really enjoyed that book. It seemed to sum up the essence of DH. Along with The Rainbow and Women in Love it was one of my favourites.