Thought for the day...

So, two posts in a row without a single comment, maybe I’m losing my touch. I do know that the more I write the less sure I am that I’m writing anything of value or even if what I’m writing makes any sense or even scans. Ah, the dilemma of being creative.

I often wonder about those cavemen paintings. Just why did they do it? Was it to amuse themselves or did they charge admission to come and look at the pretty pictures? Two flints for adults, children go free. Just why did they pick up a stick, sharpen it, and begin to draw on the walls of their caves?

Of course we all start out drawing and making up stories for our own amusement, young children don’t need the opinions of others, but once you get to school and the marking begins you start to need to be told that you have done well to give what you have done value. Soon the opinions and praise of others begin to count, then the self-consciousness starts, and eventually most people give up drawing and making up stories for themselves because they ‘can’t’ when of course they can.

It’s so easy to forget how to use your imagination, far too easy to agree that you can’t draw, write, sing, make music, see the pictures in the clouds. Far too easy to replace all that instinctive creativity with education and grades and ‘can’t’.

Oh well, that’s that, my thought for today. I hope that you liked my little drawing.