Art is Life

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XZ9z6OewR0

Watch this TED talk first. Now, every single one of you that cares about humanity should be creating. Whether it’s music, cooking, drawing, sewing, whatever. It’s what makes us real. In fact, I insist that everyone who reads this provide some personal example or I will hunt you down and make you do something creative.

Kurt Vonnegut, who once said “Don’t anyone tell you differently, we are here to fart around” talked about the importance of art.

“When I was 15, I spent month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That’s amazing!And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at any of them.” And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: And I said oh no but I’m not good at any of them. And he said something I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no had ever said anything like it to me before: “ I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you have got all these wonderful experiences with different skills that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person no matter how well you do them.” and that honestly changed my life because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “win” at them.”

Lots of people have talked about this, but talk is cheap, just do it, you won’t regret it. I’ll leave you with a profound insight by author Neale Donald Walsh.

“Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else. You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don’t like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not living, that is a dying. If you say, “But, but. . .” I will answer: If you insist that your life is about what your body is doing, you do not understand why you came here. At least do something that pleases you-that speaks of Who You Are.”