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You don’t need some special talent to be an artist. The truth is we don’t need anything but ourselves. You may think that you don’t have a creative bone in your body or that you can’t even draw a straight line but I’m here to tell you that every human being has some creativeness inside them. I’m talking about the “art” to be found in everyday living.
I believe in creating things, ideas and moments that will bring you closer to the people in your life. It can be as creative as having an amazing dinner party from leftovers or that special little thank you gift that you made.
The best gifts are not found in a box or in a store. The best gifts are the people and the moments that make life wonderful. There is no limit to the way we can share from our hearts. Living creatively helps us to express love in our everyday acts.
There are three main reasons that widows need to be creative :
1. The more hardships we have in our lives the more we search for self expression. Sometimes there are simply no words to express what we are feeling. We need other ways to let people know what is in our hearts.
2. Many of us feel a lack of meaning in our lives. We may be moving through life and wondering just what we have accomplished. We need to stop and put more meaning into our actions. Living creatively does not mean we do more, but that we put more meaning into what we do.
3. We all need more reasons to play. A child is always being creative, asking questions and laughing. But as a grownup we lose our creatively, and with it our imagination and joyfulness.
Decide right now to bring playfulness back into your life. By living creatively we recognize that we are each in charge of putting play, meaning and self expression back into our everyday lives.
I want to inspire you to create a moment that matters. To create a memory that will last a life time is to create a sense of yourself as the artist of your own life.
