“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.”- Pablo Picasso
“There is creative reading and also creative writing.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
Vansh holds a very good job with a Big 4. He carries home a handsome and a fat pay packet. Vansh has nearly forty employees reporting under him. He owns a car and a posh apartment, in the heart of the city. His wife is a home-maker and why not? Her husband is earning the best salary in the industry. She is under no compulsion to slog her day in an office, doing the monotonous work that Vansh does and is so used to doing all these years. Their children are studying in the most prestigious school. What more can one ask for? Vansh makes it a point to take his family for a holiday every year, to the best tourist destinations in the world.
The above situation is typically what everybody would dream of, the perfect job, a fat salary, children studying in the best school, a car if not a sedan, an own house if not a bungalow and a yearly vacation.
Everybody is a Vansh. All of us are sailing in the same boat. We go through the monotonous task of getting up and going to the workplace day after day, facing the same situations, doing the same work, month after month, year after year, meeting the same people, clients and facing the same problems. This monotony is not stuck only with Vansh but also with his wife. Being a typical homemaker, she does the same tasks every day, getting the children ready to school, doing the household chores, going to the market and so on, not that she would not like to pursue her interests but just that she does not find time for herself.
How many of us would like to pursue our long lost interests? There is an artist inside many of us, but we do not find the time to paint or sketch. There could be a William Wordsworth or a P.B.Shelly hidden inside many of us, but we do not find the time to write poetry.
Some of us could have become a Chetan Bhagat or an Amish Tripathi or even better still a Rudyard Kipling, but how many of us have the time to sit down and even pen our thoughts?
There are so many beautiful things happening around us ever day, but do we spare a moment to even notice them? Some people are so passionate about photography, but where do they have the time to click amazing photographs running behind a butterfly or a sparrow, when they are busy running behind business targets.
Life is short. It is full of pressures and challenges. Every day is a gift to us. What is the point in earning a fat salary when you do not have the time to grow your interests? Be creative. Nurture your creativity. Creativity needs constant care and feeding. Pursue your interests and hobbies.
If you are good at painting spare some time to paint, maybe during the weekends when you are free and have some space for yourself. Have a ‘My space’ schedule when you have all the time only for yourself. Devote the entire time to yourself. You need not be a Michelangelo or an M.F.Hussain to have people appreciating or criticizing your work. It is ‘Your Time’. You never know, maybe someday your paintings may get exhibited in an Art Gallery
Read. Develop the hobby of reading. It is said that a book is a man’s best friend. There is nothing like sipping a hot cup of tea or coffee and some hot bajjiyas to eat, with a good book for company. Those who are into the habit of reading can definitely relate to the euphoria. You can learn new words and improve your imagination.
Pen down your thoughts. Express your feelings and thoughts by writing them down in a book or diary. Better still, open a blog page. Let the world know that what a good a writer you are. Do not have any inhibitions. It is not a rule that, only if you are the best writer with an unfailing command over the English language that you can publish your thoughts. I would not want people reading my blog, to run for the dictionary every time they come across a difficult word that they fail to comprehend and understand.
Take as many photographs as you like. There are so many interesting things happening every day. You do not have to be a Brian Duffy or a Yousuf Karsh to take photos of wildlife or warfare. You may win a newspaper contest for your photo.
Write a book if you have that inkling in you to write one. Even Chetan Bhagat left his handsome bank job to become a writer. Amish Tripathi was in the financial services industry for 14 years before starting his writing career.
Just do anything that will make you feel happy doing it, Clay modeling, Paper quilling, Poetry writing, Singing and Dancing, Gardening, anything under the Sun.
Get creative. Do not get trapped in the monotony of life. Pursue your interests and hobbies. Do not get sucked into the infinite numerical targets. Creativity is like a nourishing food to your otherwise redundant mind. You will never be able to satiate your creative hunger. You can never be at loss with your creativity. We have one life. Not the best of occupation or the best of designation can equate to the satisfaction that we derive from pursuing our creative talents in an otherwise monotonous world. Get creative and paint the world red with your interests and creativity.
As Henry Van Dyke said, “Use the talents that you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang the best”.
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