There are
obviously people in this world who are more creative than I am, but I don’t think
that I am lacking in creativity, some ideas I had might not have been the best,
but they were still creative nevertheless. In some ways we are all creative,
but it is up to us as the individual to dig deep and use our creativity before
it is gone and we can never use it.
My mom
has always been someone that inspires me, I know sounds cheesy and cliché, but it
is true. She always encourages me to do whatever it is that I want to do, to
never be a follower but instead a leader, and most importantly never feel
pressured into doing something because someone want s me to do it. The day
before I started classes at Southern she bought me a poster for my room that has
a quote be George Bernard Shaw and says “Imagination
is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you
imagine and at last you create what you will”. This quote is what I see every
day when I wake up and is something that I value deeply, but otherwise wouldn’t
if my mom never encouraged me to be creative when I was younger and still
encourages me to use my creative side in every part of life.
I remember when I was in first grade; I was able to
put my creativity to the test. We were making our own didgeridoos, some kind of
musical instruments, and we were able to decorate them any way we wanted to and
our teacher wasn’t going to help us in anyway. I painted my didgeridoo with
every color that was in front of me, and when I was finished I thought it was
the greatest thing in the world. I still have that didgeridoo in my closet, and
looking at it now, it is just a mess of colors and have absolutely no clue why I
ever thought that it looked good!! Even though I did not have the best art
sense when I was five, I still admire how my teacher just stood back and didn’t
try to help us, which is something that I think all teachers should do; let the
creativity run through their students.
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