Creativity

Express your creativity - delight in the mystery of your inner muse!

CREATE: (Verb).

1.	to cause to come into being, as something unique that would not naturally evolve or that is not made by ordinary processes.

2.	to evolve from one's own thought or imagination, as a work of art or an invention.

3.	Theater. to perform (a role) for the first time or in the first production of a play.

4.	to make by investing with new rank or by designating; constitute; appoint: to create a peer.

5.	to be the cause or occasion of; give rise to: The announcement created confusion.

6.	to cause to happen; bring about; arrange, as by intention or design: to create a revolution; to create an opportunity to ask for a raise.

I love that theater has its own special definition of creation. :-) As in, to create a character, to form a new human essence based on the world and words of another. Interestingly enough, I believe we do this all the time. In fact, I would say that the vision of ourself we present to the world is merely a character we have created to star in the story of our life. Some of us find ourselves on Broadway for years and become parts of culture, society, humanity on the whole -that is the IMPACT we manage to have on our surroundings. Others of us never make it off the shelf - we have created a story that we either chose not to share or others chose not to read. This, I imagine, is the loneliest way to live. If a story is not read - does it exist? :-) Topic for another time, perhaps!

We have the INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY to create and recreate ourselves with every breath, every word, every gesture, move, action. We can write the story of our lives if we choose. And we should be creative with our story! Now, I don't mean you can choose to live on Mars and ride unicorns (although.. that sounds quite fun!) - but you can certainly live on a different planet :-) Some of us already do.

In every moment, we choose - whether to eat, and if you eat, what do you eat? When to get up - whether or not to shower, whether or not you brush your teeth. These things we decide so often that many of these choices seem instinctual. I get up, I brush my teeth, clean my body, put on clothes, eat, work, sleep, repeat. And yet - nothing forces us to makes these decisions. We can chose NOT to do any of these things, but as with any choice there are consequences. Consequences are not necessarily a bad thing, although the word itself seems to be associated with a certain stigma. Something happens and then something else happens. If, then. Logic -not punishment.

The inner muse gives us the ideas for our story, but it is up to us, the author to chose which of these lovely sentiments make it into the book! We may hear - "be upset! Get Angry! Take it personally!" and we should hear it, because chances are these responses are based in "our truths" (whatever they may be for each of us). However, we do not have to act on every one of our muse's ideas.

I like the first two definitions of "create" listed - you can take what you already have (i.e. your thoughts and feelings) and use those to bring something new and/or unique into being. It is said that nothing is new anymore, we merely manipulate ideas, thoughts and simply or build upon them and this too is creation, invention!

That said. I still have the urge to create something outside of myself, something with greater relevance and deeper meaning - a book, an opera, a painting, a symphony! But perhaps this is not my story. Perhaps I am not a broadway musical - maybe I am the show at a local theater that the same 10 people see every week. Perhaps I reach fewer people on a more profound level rather than mass exposure on a superficial level. I don't know. I won't know until I die, methinks.

I want to create a beautiful, intriguing existence for myself. This is what I will create - how I get there... that's another story.

Love,

M