I kind of stopped thinking about being ‘creative’ a long time ago. Probably when I officially dropped my love of Art in college, as a subject mind. I don’t think you could ever stop being an ‘artist’. I couldn’t see it as a long term relationship. We had no future. It’s not you, it’s me. Actually, it was kind of you. What was I going to do with an Art degree? Researching rather than using a blank canvas always let me down. I wasting my time? Why am I thinking about this all now? On a blog? All these years later? Yes, I have started blogging. This happened by accident. I didn’t intend on starting a blog, especially about something like this. It all happened by accident. But I am going to use this as a platform to explore creativity to its fullest. A big thank you to you if you’ve not fallen asleep by now, but I think it’s really important for all of use to think about that inner creative soul that I’m sure is in all of us. Whether it’s to be on stage, to pick up an instrument, to use that blank canvas…we shouldn’t hide from it any longer. Unleash it, and make this world beautiful.I look a fashion designers and artists, actors and musicians sometimes with a longing to belong. But I can draw, I can make a blank piece of look colour and beautiful. I have an artistic ‘hunar’. A talent. With practice of henna inspired designs, I can now make them look like stunning prints. People don’t believe me when I say it’s all freehand; that I don’t think about it but I just start and I let my mind become as free as a bird. So, I AM creative. I have creativity in me. I have to just look at myself and be a bird. Fly.
I had a childhood before technology infused my life. Facebook, Twitter, blogging, Instagram, etc etc – didn’t exist. We used to have an imagination. Pen and paper were important. Now creativity is measured by computers. Digital creativity is the ‘in thing’. But I live in a country that has so much historical and cultural creativity that I wonder why I haven’t appreciated it more. If I had gone and seen a play, spent every Friday in Vue, learnt the violin or graduated in Art, maybe I wouldn’t be so hesitant to belong. But to hell with that. Step by step, blog by blog, I’m going unleash the creative soul in me. (Cue Katy Perry’s Roar, oh oh oh, and Kangana Ranaut’s Queen, where she realises her own talents and strength through selling gol gappa, in Kolkata it’s called Puchka, in Mumbai it’s paani puri….).
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