In the midst of summer I am trying to keep myself busy. Not really with loads of plans or anything, but rather with some creative stimulation: writing, reading, crafting, and just creating in general.
If you have been living in a home with a television, you have probably heard of Phineas and Ferb the Disney Channel show. The whole point of the show is that the boys are trying not to waste their summer break so they make all these crazy inventions and whatnot. So, naturally, I have had my screwdriver and Lowers card out all summer.
But really, I can't even cut a board straight let alone build anything cool with one.
Rather than building towers to the moon and back, I have been writing feverishly and filming a short film with some of my friends. It is a zero budget production with poor audio and video and no hope of ever seeing the light of day. However, it is keeping us active, productive, and creative.
There are some people in this world that will tell you that they just aren't creative and that my dear reader is a bunch of bull. Everyone has the capacity to be creative in one way or another. The problem with people thinking they aren't creative stems from how humans have divided out creativity. Slowly we have taken the idea of creativity and given it out to only a few activities.
Meaning that drawing, painting, sketching, poetry, acting, writing, and other traditional tangible art forms have been deemed creative. However, I would say that there is creativity in everything that you do. If you are a cook, architect, landscaper, scientist, bank manager, PR rep, or really any job that involves you using your brain... you are being creative, taking nothing and turning it into something that works.
Creativity should be defined as using your brain to do something you care about. If you care about sports don't just write it off as an athletic and nothing more. Allow it to be your form of creative expression. Allow yourself to create plays or a dream team with the perfect balance of offense and defense (please excuse my poor and rather vague sports talk. The closest I ever got to sports was box soccer in elementary school.... so I'm all like "you put the ball/puck into the square/spot/goal place...").
So I guess this is my poorly constructed and mediocrely written message to you: Stop telling yourself you "just aren't that creative" and find something that you care about to be creative with. That way when summer is over and everybody asks "What did you do this summer" you can answer with some validity.
