How does one live creatively? Do you need to be an artist? Do you need to be a writer, a painter, a photographer, or a musician?
I think every person can live creatively, if they choose to do so. Living creatively is living outside the box. It’s viewing life – the ups and downs, the good and the bad – viewing all of it with an attitude of acceptance and reality…and moving beyond it. Too often we have a hard time moving beyond the good and the bad. We want to stay in the midst of the good – enjoying the recognitions, the accolades, the affirmations – and we get stuck in the midst of what once was. Or, we may get stuck in the ‘bad’ – not wanting to risk again, not wanting to possibly fail again, not wanting to get hurt one more time.
I attended a funeral of a 22-year-old young man this past week. He was a pilot and loved to fly. I learned that when flying an airplane you take off facing into the wind. Isn’t that a great analogy to life? And this is what they mentioned at his memorial service: To do life well, we must be willing to face into the wind – into the adversities of life and choose to ‘fly’.
Our response to both sides – the good and the bad – should be the same. Accept it. Face it. Embrace it. Them move beyond it. All things are temporal. Life goes on. Will we go with it? Or will we become stuck? I’ve often heard that if we’re not moving forward, we’re moving backwards. There isn’t a place of not moving.
Let’s be movers into the wind. Let’s move beyond the good and the bad. Let’s live life creatively.
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