Oh creativity, creativity. You little bugger you. Might you be the purpose of life? Of my life? Why are you so important? So fulfilling? So peaceful at times and at others so frustrating? Why are you so linked to inspiration? Self-worth? Time? Money? And, sometimes you come and sometimes you go, can't you stay longer?

I think creativity is linked to happiness. As some say happiness is what happens when you get into this concentrated state, where you go into autopilot and get lost in what you are doing. Some people call this flux. When you forget your problems, your phone, the world around you. And it’s just you. But you don't feel lonely or anything. You sort of feel calm and thoughts come and go, like a meditative state. And you move and do things without thinking about what you're doing exactly...Yeah, I think I agree with that flux - happiness idea.

They said that can happen with exercise, or with different activities, i.e. creating. For me it happens a lot with creating, especially painting.

So if we know that getting creative, connecting with your inner child or self, or just plain letting go creatively can bring happiness, I ask why don't people do it more? For example, I feel like the general population know exercise is a good thing, we all agree we should probably do some type of exercise, right? But what about being creative?

When we are kids our parents and guardians alway encourage us to draw and paint.. but growing up that enthusiasm from the outside world and from ourselves seems to get lost. Being an artist or a creative also gets looked down as a career path many times sadly. My hypothesis is because us adults connect value and respect to income / status. And if something doesn't give us direct income or status we think it's a waste of time. 

Another question pops up for me, but why is being creative not prioritised? Why is not universally recognised as something good for us, our minds, even arguably, our souls. For instance, I genuinely think it could very beneficial for a doctor to say "hey you should doodle more, I'm prescribing you 2 hours doodling a week." If creating can be happiness then it's good for you, right?

Let me go a bit further with this idea. Now at the ripe age of 29 years old now, I look at those around me, friends, colleagues, family, and it surprises me that many of them just don’t do anything creative. Perhaps I'm just childish but I just know throwing paint and playing around with colours makes me happy. And if something makes you happy you should probably share that with others right?