Create, enjoy, let it be
Everybody in this world is good at something. When you're a kid you dream of all sorts of things, you're encouraged to be creative, at school you write stories, draw pictures, good teachers give you opportunities to see the world in different ways. Later in your school life you get taught the analytical skill-set, you pull apart creative works and discover how things are done and why some things are done better than others.
Out in the workforce you discover it's analytical skills that are the most commonly sought-after. If you want to earn some money, buy a house, get a car, you invest time and energy in the rational, the technical. Doing this enables you to consume at a level which you feel you deserve as you look at your peers and what they have. Gradually your life becomes more about what you can have rather than what you can make.
The point of this blog for me is to see what I can make. To devote some time and energy to creating my own stuff rather than chasing things created by others. I'll post new creative content whenever I can and I'll also post creative highlights from the past: my columns from New Zealand magazines; my film reviews from my local paper; my 'Yeah Right' Tui suggestions that for some inexplicable reason never made it to a billboard...(Tui is my fave New Zealand beer and it's famous-in-New-Zealand for its 'Yeah Right' advertising campaign)
I'm gonna have fun. I hope you do too reading what I write (I know, I know, I'm assuming an actual audience here - hey, why else would I venture into cyberspace??)
Create, enjoy, let it be
Michael
posted by Michael @ 12:39 AM
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