Today I would like to share something that’s been on my mind for last few weeks and I think it’s important to speak about. It’s not a light topic, it’s kind of a serious issue and I was hesitant to write about it at first.
Since today is December 1st, the first day of the last month of 2011. it seemed appropriate to take a little time to make plans for my art and blogs and creative projects in 2012. and put them on paper. As I was starting to write down all of my goals (and I have plenty) I got very excited and motivated but my excitement was soon replaced by doubt and even hints of fear.
I asked myself, considering the condition of the world today, the economy and not so unrealistic scenario of a new world war, should I’d be really making plans for something relatively trivial such as personal art projects?
Is there any point in making art related plans is such turbulent, uncertain times or should I just see what happens and adjust?
Every day I hear people complain (and righteously so) about economy, unemployment, Croatian government, being under appreciated and under payed at work (to put it lightly), people are tired and see no positive solutions or any perspective for future and it’s all very sad. We’re bombarded by media with negativity and fear inducing news more than ever, and, yes, we all know the way media works and it’s basically designed not to inform us but to scare us, but its hard to escape it’s influence. I never watch TV and almost never watch any news, I’m an incurable optimist and always try to focus on the positivity, I take every information coming through main stream media with grain of salt and I still feel negative influence of it.
So, I’ve asked myself does it make sense to make art plans and dream big in a world
today? And my answer is big bold YES.
YES, today more than ever is important to dream big, to create, to be positive. Creativity is from my experience the best possible anti-dote for fear and anxiety. It keeps the flow of positive energy going, it opens door to new possibilities, it connects and moves people. So does art.
In the world today it’s crucial to make your own plans and goals, no matter how hard it may seem to bring them to life, no matter how gloomy and troublesome prospects of realizing them might look like. If you don’t make your own plans, if you don’t take your life into your own hands and take full responsibility for it, somebody else will direct your life for you.
If you reject your personal power of creating your own life and your own destiny someone else will do it for you, your bosses, teachers, media, government, bankster mafia etc. Soon you will fall into trap of not believing you have any power whatsoever to create life you want. I’ve seen it happen so many times before.
So, my answer is YES, today is crucial more than ever to make plans and set art and creativity goals, to manifest the life we want to live and not the life we believe we can have in these troubled times.
It’s important to dream big, to nurture our dreams and goals and to resist negativity with creativity :)
It’s important to keep on creating art and plan on creating even more art, not to underestimate the value of it so in the spirit of that I will write about my creative projects for 2012. soon :)
I’m curious do you have any creative plans for 2012.? And when you make art or craft you do take in consideration the condition of the world today or do simply ignore it and keep on making pretty things? Leave a comment or drop me a line on asja(at)asjaboros.com, I’d love to hear your opinion!
*illustration DREAM BIG! is a collaboration with Alkaline Samurai
this is a wonderful post. my thoughts exactly at the moment. i am too planning my next year and i do get my doubts especially about my main plan to move away from my country to go in another place, to experience something new in life and work on my creativity. i get fears and doubt about it, but deep down i know that i want to do it no matter what, even though i get comments from other people which may not agree with my views (such as my parents!). thank you for posting this (i’ve shared it on facebook)
Your blog struck a chord with me. I’ve always been fearful of planning anything for the future because I never had the confidence in myself and what I did. I had a string of bad luck for a long while but I was taught by someone very close to me that I could change it by thinking positively and working hard for what I want in life. It’s only recently that I started to believe that I could achieve anything and managed to do things which I had only dreamed about and wished for over the years. Taking the first few (big) steps has made me feel bright eyed and ready to do more although I’m still hesitant in planning in the long term but I’m enjoying the ride and just going with it. So, here’s to 2012!! Yahoo!
Denise- thanks for commenting and sharing a bit of your own plans! I wish you good luck with your move and I know it will turn out great. You are a multi talented artist and all of your work is bursting with creativity!
Bianca, thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts! I too believe that thinking positively and working hard can transform our lives for the better. Not only I believe it but I experienced it in my life, and I know that first steps are always the hardest to make. So I want to congratulate you on already taking them and I’m sure you are on the right path to achieve whatever your heart desires!
mislim da bi i ja tribala prestat gledat tv i prestat čitat novine. samo crne vijesti u njima. Teško je iza takvog bombardiranja ostati pozitivan…
do sada nisam pokušavala staviti ciljeve, ili želje, na papir. Priznajem da me to plaši jer me na neki način obvezuje da nešto zapravo i poduzmem. Istina, najteži su prvi koraci, pa makar bili i puko pisanje želja na papir!
Predivan post, hvala ti što si s nama podijelila svoja razmišljanja, jedva čekam upoznati tvoju slikovnicu, a jednom i tebe nadam se ;)
Iskreno, ne znam bih li uopće izdržala proteklu godinu traženja posla u struci, čitanja frustrirajućih i tužnih vijesti i statične životne okolnosti da nisam konstantno na neki način posvećena kreativi, honorarnim poslovima i budućim planovima…
Zadnje vrijeme se čak pitam bih li na drugi način tražila posao i živjela dane da se nisam kreativno razvijala i planirala… Od onih sam koja radije skicira, planira i zapisuje ideje i kreativne planove, nego ih bilježi isključivo ako se mislim primiti izvedbe… Vjerujem u ono da zapisivanje/skiciranje/planiranje ideja dodatno razvija samu ideju, razmjena ideja potiče kreativnost, kreativni ljudi potiču na kreativne planove… Čak mi se nekad čini da bih više napravila kad bih manje planirala i stavljala na papir :) Ovako neke ideje i skice na papiru ostanu zauvijek neizvedeni ili dugo čekaju da budu provedene u djelo jer sam ja mirna što su se negdje skučili…
Kad se ljudi čude kako to da sam toliko sklona kreativnim djelatnostima s obzirom koji sam studij odabrala, objasnim im da sam najviše ideja i planova imala u doba kad sam pripremala formalne ispite i analizirala potpuno druga područja… Vjerujem da se ne trebamo bojati budućnosti ako ostanemo “interdisciplinarni”, tj. ako gledamo van okvira, ako stvari kojima nismo skloni počnemo promatrati iz kuteva kojima smo skloniji, ako si dopustimo osluškivati tuđe načine i damo da nas oni potaknu da uspostavimo neke efikasnije metode…
Doduše, često za sebe čujem da bi i od g*** napravila zlato, ali to je tako kad se bolje osjećam ako se usudim biti kreativna i time održavam optimizam… To me ne čini slijepom za realnost, samo ne prihvaćam loš osjećaj koji nosi pesimizam… Tko je nesretan zbog zle sudbine više ljudi kojima ne može pomoći, neka učini nešto od srca i korisno jednoj osobi kojoj može i trenutno će se osjećati sretnim :)
Zadnje što me zaintrigiralo je citat “If you’re not working on your best idea, you’re doing it wrong.” To mi je definitivno poticaj da se u 2012. prvo prihvatim onog kreativnog plana koji je najbolji, najinovativniji i s kojim se najviše mogu razvijati u budućnosti… S obzirom koliko se raspišem u komentarima po blogovima dragih kreativki, možda bi ipak bilo najbolje da si napokon aktiviram neki web kutak ;)
Tina- da, mislim da nas pogotovo u zadnje vrijeme previše bombardiraju s negativnošću putem medija, kao da žele da nacija bude ukolektivnoj depri hehe.
Da, znam što hoćeš reći, nekad je najteže obvezati se da nešto napravimo, pogotovo ciljeve kretivne pririode, podsvijest kao da se budi i pokušava reći “nemoj me ničime sputavti daj mi da se slobodno izražavam” :)
Marija-hvala na opširnom komentaru!
Da, kreativa, u kojem god se obliku iskazala nam često pomaže da prebrodima i najizazovnija razdoblja života. Zapisivanje/skiciranje/planiranje ideja zasigurno potiće kretivnost, vjerujem, da, čak i ako nikad nisi realizirala ideje koje si planirala ipak si vježbala maštu i kretivnost i učinila nešto za sebe. Nikad ništa nije uzalud :)
Slažem se s tobom, uvijek vrijedi gleadti van okvira i razvijati se te istraživati i druga područja djelovanja.
Jako mi se sviđa citat koji te inspirira! Odlićna misao!
Nadam se da ćeš uskoro napraviti svoj kutak na web , podijeti s nama svoje ideje, kreativnost i razmišljanja tako da se i mi možemo raspisati tebi u komentarima :)
Tako mi je drago da sam naišla na tebe i tvoj draguljčić od bloga putem Dots-a. I samu me muče ista pitanja i više me nego dirnuo ovaj post, točno si pogodila u “sridu”! ;)
Isto tako zahvaljujem na inspiraciji i poticaju za dalje stvaranje. Svijetu, a pogotovo našoj zemlji u ovom trenutku trebaju pozitivni, kreativni, maštoviti mladi ljudi poput tebe, a i sama se trudim na isti način doprinijeti svakodnevici, koja je vrlo često siva, ali nastojim u njoj vidjeti i skrivene boje. Drago mi je da postoji još netko takav!
Sve pohvale tebi, tvojim ilustracijama i tvom radu! S veseljem očekujem sljedeći post! <3
Hvala na posjeti, Lana!