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How do you live with the monotony and stress of the work day and continue to be creative? Or do you have to give up a part of yourself to be a part of society?
I just wanted to start a conversation about the struggles that creative people have in our everyday lives. Yesterday I worked on a few crafts that I did not have time to do until recently and it was so nice. To be able to take the time to create something, to use your hands to fulfill what your mind thought up is something that makes me feel more alive than anything. Then the inevitable sunk in , that I would have to go to work the next day and do nothing creative at all. Work gives me money to be creative and so it is a love/hate relationship to say the least. I love the people I work with and although my job is not what I wanted to do, it is fulfilling on occasion. It gives me enough money to have a roof over my head and some extra fun stuff, but I still can't shake the feeling day in and day out that I wish I was doing something more creative with my life!
I am sure this is a struggle that many of your have had and probably continue to have. How have you helped to ease it? Maybe some of you don't have to work and can spend all day being creative. Which sounds amazing! But for most of us, this is not the case. I do feel frivolous and privileged to even think about wanting this. To wake up without an alarm clock, to work on art without the looming sense of obligation that comes with " real life". Wouldn't it be amazing if we had a national creative day and everyone got the day off to create something new to share with the world? Many would say I have a " pie in the sky" attitude. But art is important! It feeds your body and soul like nothing else can.
I just wanted to start a conversation about the struggles that creative people have in our everyday lives. Yesterday I worked on a few crafts that I did not have time to do until recently and it was so nice. To be able to take the time to create something, to use your hands to fulfill what your mind thought up is something that makes me feel more alive than anything. Then the inevitable sunk in , that I would have to go to work the next day and do nothing creative at all. Work gives me money to be creative and so it is a love/hate relationship to say the least. I love the people I work with and although my job is not what I wanted to do, it is fulfilling on occasion. It gives me enough money to have a roof over my head and some extra fun stuff, but I still can't shake the feeling day in and day out that I wish I was doing something more creative with my life!
I am sure this is a struggle that many of your have had and probably continue to have. How have you helped to ease it? Maybe some of you don't have to work and can spend all day being creative. Which sounds amazing! But for most of us, this is not the case. I do feel frivolous and privileged to even think about wanting this. To wake up without an alarm clock, to work on art without the looming sense of obligation that comes with " real life". Wouldn't it be amazing if we had a national creative day and everyone got the day off to create something new to share with the world? Many would say I have a " pie in the sky" attitude. But art is important! It feeds your body and soul like nothing else can.