The Hardest Part of Being a Creator
The best and hardest part of being a creator or being creative is seeing the potential in everything. Whether I'm walking through an old house, or even a new one, or looking at a stack of cardboard or a piece of wood, there are always possibilities. I'm inspired by many things around me.
When I was young and we didn't have a lot of money my mom would sew a lot of our Sunday dresses and really nice outfits. But it wasn't just any old pattern. Many times we would go to the stores and my mom would ask me to pick out a dress I liked and then we would go to the fabric store, find a pattern that was really similar, pick fabric, and she would duplicate that dress in the store. And she was really good at it too.
Some might say that was a poor man's mindset, but to me it was an exaple of being resourceful and using the skills she had to help make ends meet. It was because of those types of experiences that creating, making something your own, finding the potential, and seeing the possibilities I learned that my greatest resource is my resourcefulness.
My imagination is also one of my greatest resources. It takes all those possibilities and creates amazing things in my mind that I can then choose to make a reality in my life. It is a constant flow of ideas that I love and breathes life into being who I want to be.
We all have a choice in how we see the world and, like Anne Shirley says, "There is so much scope of imagination." Our world becomes what we make it. I choose to see the potential.
~ Rachel
We believe that we all have this ability. We all have these moments, these opportunities when we have a flash of imagination or creativity. When we are in a place of lacking something, and we have a problem in front of us to address; this is when these moment come most often. It doesn't have to be life changing though. These moments can come in the little day-to-day things that happen.
That time your kid is crying and nothing seems to be working, and then you have an idea and it calms your kid down. Seeing a room full of clutter and figuring out a functional way to organize it, even if it takes a few tries. Each of these, and many others like them, are moments when we have let your creativity out and tapped into our resourcefulness. There really is so much scope for our imagination.
How do you choose to see the world?