These are a few words I wrote for a message for one of my clients. It rang like a bell as I read it back a few hours after typing it effortlessly scribing it to help connect digitally with existing or potential customers. I care a lot about helping my clients, it’s what makes the work I do engaging and fulfilling. My career/occupation luckily allows me to utilize my creative freedom, and be compensated, which isn’t always true.
Creative freedom is something that no one can really take from us.
Even a man in jail has his creative freedom. Sure, the tools he has access to are limited to the confines of his cell, and the permission of his keepers. This isn’t unlike the confines of our environment. We remain in an endless state of being free to be creative, but how free are we to execute our ideas?
Executing an idea requires action. But how much? Even one step in the right direction is progress. Who validates our progress? When we look at our “work,” especially during these times, who is it that we are providing action for?
Are we providing action for the customer?
Our boss?
The family we provide for?
How often do we act on creativity for our own fulfillment?
If someone were to frame you for murder, and put you in a cell for the rest of your life, what would you have to do? No one left to please. No one left to entertain. No one left to love.
As disgustingly frightening as that scenario sounds, I consider the possibility of a silent oneness with yourself. Imagine then, the scenario in place, being gifted something like a pen and notebook. What would you do with that notebook?
One thing I’ve noticed throughout this quarantime is that the truth shines bright in darkness. Though many things are being pointed out that are wrong with our society as a whole, I truly believe that light is being shined on the things that are good about our society. Before all of this, how much light was being shined on the good things?
How honest were we being with ourselves?
How good did we think we had it?
How much better could we feel about ourselves?
Together we will overcome, and come together we will!
