This is supposed to be my musical bio. But I refuse to bore you with self indulgence. And if I may be honest - I don’t care much for music itself. I believe music is a hugely overrated part of daily human existence, what we should really listen closer to is the music of the natural world... but that's all another matter.
What I do care for however, is that little thing called 'creativity.' I mean, isn't the concept of 'creativity' vastly misunderstood in our world? We say musicians are creative, we say artists are creative. We leave no room for the average man to live creatively. But I am an average man; I’m not good at anything in particular, I can’t play piano for too long before my fingers hurt, I don’t have a beautiful voice, nor am I intellectually brilliant.
You see, I worked as a banker for sometime. It was a destructive job; I was a machine there, an automaton. But Nature herself decided to make me a human being - not a machine - and therefore, as with any human being, my heart instrinsically longed to live creatively rather than destructively. So I quit that job and moved into my parents basement to do just that.
“What do you mean by living creatively? You have no talents what so ever,” I was told, and rightfully so. Yet a lack of talent wasn't my concern. Creativity was my concern. There was a burning fire in the heart to live creativity, and from that fire came poetry and music; from that fire came hundreds of pages of writings; from that came the most beautiful (or, beautifully strange) relationships; and from that fire came an on-going benediction within the heart that is beyond all measure.
Unfortunately, our education system and our society have told us to "do one thing well and stick to it." But this is wrong, for the human being is a dynamic creature. Man is not meant to do one thing his whole life; this is how neurosis is born. When you feel stagnation setting in, move to the next thing; live dangerously, try something a new, even if it costs you your financial stability,even if it costs you your life. For remember this: a moment lived fully is worth infinitely more than a eternity lived dully. This is how life is meant to be lived. And I tell you, the more things you create; whether music or a fresh meal or a beautiful relationship; the more you bring creativity to every facet of your existence, the more fulfilled your life will be.
So I hope we may all become creative beings, after all there has been so much destruction in this world, too many have suffered endlessly for us not to live creatively. And if a fairly useless and talentless fellow like me can find a way to live creatively then surely we all can. For let us make no mistake: living creatively is nothing short of the means to a better planet and a beautiful world.