Trying not to sound pretentious when talking about creativity

 

First of all: I have dragged myself out to do a style post after so long and because of my super uncooperative brother, I took everything here by myself (with the help of a heel and a tissue box) AND THAT IS SOMETHING! (may that justify the quality of some of these pictures)

Next: I always have a habit of doing these kinda things to procrastinate and ignore exams (a lil throwback to when I started this blog literally before my EOYs last year). And seeing how Promotional Exams are coming up, one may expect this place to be a little livelier…

 

 

Now on to the main topic I have decided on today: creativity. At this point I have heard enough about this word and it sounds pretentious when one attempts to preach it to others (as I have been on the receiving end occasionally). Still, why I even bothered to talk about it is because I have had enough of this ironic chant coming from dull and dreamless adults who do not take the time to nurture creativity (the seed has shriveled into dust long ago) and are actually killing any remnants of it left in us, borderline wannabe adults.

Also, fun fact: it was a bad decision to put on TWO layers of long sleeved blouse and I sweat like crazy throughout this shoot.

 

 

I will not waste breath on “oh everybody is an artist” because artistic inclinations are something that people are born with and some just have a greater affinity for it. However, nobody is born without at least an ounce of creativity and that deserves upmost protection because creativity –> agile minds –> more fun in life. Over-simplified, perhaps, but it is hard to describe how it feels like to create something in world where we remain consumers most of the time.

 

 

 

Then, (if you have even entertained the idea of trying to be creative) is it possible to awaken our calling at this stage in our life? (or some cliche variation, I ask the atmosphere as ironically as possible)

Trying my best to not sound pretentious (but possibly failing): Creativity comes from rebellion, or struggling to do what others are not already doing, and honestly why waste your precious teenage energy angst-ing with your parents and teachers when you can be as rebellious as you want and create something out of it?

Tired of seeing the same instagram selfies? Me too, and probably the same for everybody else too, so why not just … crop your head out? Tired of seeing the same “back to school lookbook” or variations of it on youtube? Same, because everybody else in the nation cannot relate to not having to wear uniforms to school.

 

 

I jest. In all seriousness, I could hardly do anything to help anyone get more creative (or I could risk coming off like a pretentious twat because of course I know how to be more creative than anybody else) but I hope we do something about it before the seed officially dies in us and we have to become one of those people who pathetically talk about things (ie. creativity) that we cannot #relate to.

Here are some reminders for myself to adhere to for my own creative output bound to rise exponentially with incoming responsibilities (and of course it would be too snobbish to recommend everyone the same things)

1. Write everything down whenever something inspires me (which is really hard to come by if I were being honest). Stuff like maybe the sound of the teacher’s high heels, or the cold air-conditioning on a bus-ride home… I have lost some really great ideas just because I lied to myself that I could remember it, only to remember the frustrating eureka feeling but not know what to shout.
2. Set aside time and stop giving excuses. Funny how I could say the same thing for the studying I should be doing, but since consuming information is our default setting, it is important to break away from scrolling through instagram and falling into the endless pit of youtube and take time to create something instead. If you do not flex the muscle, you will never grow stronger (or see how far you have come)
3. Laugh and joke a lot more. Being happy is scientifically proven to help us with instinctive thinking (the best I could put it in my non-science student vocab) Ever since I have been pulling the legs of people around me and laughing obnoxiously loudly, things have just been going rather well and I am convinced I am creating something of value.