Let Your Creativity Be A Light

/ still a dreamer

If you are a creative person, I’m sure you are periodically met with the awe and wonder of others who are genuinely admiring of your talent. Me, too. What these wonderful and complimentary people are generally unaware of are the challenges that come along with having our gifts.

Earlier today, I watched a new song/video from someone I greatly admire, and was marveling at how easy he makes it look. But I also know that’s not his whole story any more than it is when I share my artwork or my writing.

As an artist, there seems to be a natural desire to please an audience, but I also know that that’s not where it’s at. It’s about telling our truth, about letting our truth, and the reality of our experience, travel out into the world and resonate with the people who need and want to hear it.

In an environment where we are meticulously measured in likes, comments, shares, algorithms, and endless online assessments, we have to be braver than ever. We have to unlock, untie, unfold our truest meanings, love them for however paltry and confused they may sometimes seem, and share them anyway. The world needs us. I believe that.

Be strong. Be a light.

8 thoughts on “Let Your Creativity Be A Light”

  4. I feel like you’re talking directly to me. I want light (the light) in each of my stories – so the stories will bring light to others. When I write though, I think of nothing and just let creation in. A type of miracle. 💙

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    • Undoubtedly, it was autobiographical, as well. I write the same way … my unconscious works on it, with occasional drifts to my conscious mind, then all of a sudden, it starts pouring out. Particularly, poetry gets written that way, but many other things as well. Yes, it does seem miraculous, doesn’t it?

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