Mount Everest, maybe I could climb
and reach its summit one day. Or, perhaps go skiing in the Alps. Would be so
wonderful breathing in the pure and chilly air, wouldn't it? Visit the beaches
of the Caribbean or sip some sparkling wine while on a cruise across the
Mediterranean. Or, someday go snorkeling around the Great Barrier Reef too. And
maybe I could walk the streets of Rome in my favorite summery outfit fulfilling
a long pending wish. Visit a patisserie in Paris or dive into the colors of
Japan. Read a book sitting in Central Park or witness the Aurora Borealis. I
could actually do anything I want, at any time. Nothing or no one could stop me
you know. And do you know how? Well, with the power of my imagination, with the
magic of creativity and of-course the internet but all of this if I have the
intent.
Knowingly, or unknowingly, we tend
to tread the path of certainties. That’s the natural tendency we are born with.
Study, get a job, get married, have a family, and then retire. Somehow the blue
prints are alike for you, and I. Even the Presidents and CEOs. We follow a more
or less set pattern with variables which we choose ourselves. Maybe you chose
to become a doctor while the annoying bully in your school chooses to be a real
estate agent. But mostly there are some to-dos in life, similar to-dos, which
we keep ticking off as we move forward.
This is where passion, interest or
rather creativity steps in, when we chose to take a diversion, some moments to
do something unlike the mundane rigmarole of life. And when this desire to
follow this uncertainty grows we leap into it completely, with every shred of
courage we can muster. That’s when inspiration turns our lives upside down,
gives it more meaning so to speak. That’s when we become a little more than we
are. That’s when we become what we, maybe, are meant to be. But it is the risk
we need to take, the stops we need to make and the idea we need to recognize,
to go that way. And it all happens when we let go of certainties. That’s when
something precious is created or felt. Like those paintings, books or
inventions. And all that is needed is the pluck to take that first step, to
keep walking, come what may. To nudge ourselves in the direction, to find time
in spite of the lack of time. To do and keep doing; living through
uncertainties.
Creativity requires the courage to
let go of certainties ~ Erich Fromm