When a kindergarten class was asked, “Who in here can draw?” every child eagerly raised their hand. When that same question was posed to a graduating class of college seniors, less than have of the students raised their hand.
Why is that? The question was not, “Who can draw well?” or “Who in here could professionally sell their artwork?” It was simply “can you draw?”
Everyone should have raised his or her hand. Everyone can draw. Doodling on the corners of a paper completely counts, stick figures count, complicated line mazes count… it’s all drawing.
When we get older self doubt becomes ever more present and suddenly we find ourselves turning off areas of ourselves that are creative simply because we don’t think we “can.” Physically, you can do almost anything: Draw. Sing. Dance.
Just because you might not do those things well doesn’t mean you should ever stop doing them.
2 comments:
That's SO true! Such a great message!!
I completely agree with your line, "When we get older self doubt becomes ever more present and suddenly we find ourselves turning off areas of ourselves that are creative simply because we don’t think we “can.”
Age plays a direct role in how individuals perceive themselves. Young wields ignorance, thus we know not what we "can" and cannot do. As we get older, we allow others perception of us to sway our opinions of ourselves. When this happens, we lose ourselves in a world obsessed with perfection. But, what is perfection?
Great post Mac :)
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