Anyways I dabble in music as well, playing trumpet, piano, and some bass. But I'm not creative with them or good. With trumpet I've been playing for 8 years and I still can't get into the wind ensemble. Piano and bass I just picked up and taught myself some stuff but I can't play much. If anyone wants to buy a bass guitar with a stand and amp I'm selling just so all you readers know. Most likely my brother will get into wind ensemble before I do and next year is my last year to try. After that I'm going to college -- wow that's crazy.
Back to the topic. Creativity. The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc. That's the definition I just copied from Dictionary.com. Its the one I like the best out of the result that came when I typed in creativity. Meaningful new ideas. The key word to me is the word meaningful. What is life but the search to do something meaningful?
Meaningful can be anything I guess -- getting married, having a family, traveling, etc. And yet I find myself questioning what I think is meaningful. Is my life meaningful? Will people remember me? Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "I need the world to know who I am" kind of people. But it would be nice for someone who I don't know personally to know who I am. To know me for something creative that I've done...
So as I said in my first sentence: I'm going to try and be more creative with my life. And I think the "calling" or "meaningful" thing I'm going to try first -- is photography.
Say cheese.
