December 7th, 2007

Hiya folks,

The entries to my blog is far and unbecoming. I know I should be getting off my lazy butt every Friday, and get my creative thoughts on a roll, and dish out page after page on my blog.
Yes, that would be a perfect world for me. However, an imperfect world for you, my friends. For you would then have to go through the anomaly of having to read my blog every week, and thus, once and for all, strike my web page off your to-do list.
That is why, I think, medicine will taste sweeter if we have to endure medicine once in a while.

Oh yes, talking about creativity, and a creative mind? So, what in the hell is ‘creativity’?
I touched upon this subject sometime back in an earlier blog. I would like to expand my thoughts on it. Anyways, I hope you will not bore yourself and start reading my earlier blog entries from the time my sick mind decided to unleash terror on this otherwise unsuspecting world, and decided to write a blog (tee hee).

So, let’s see:

When you see a picture, your mind forms an image of it deep inside it. Creativity, is all about how you perceive the image in your mind. If you see the image as a duplicate of the picture, then you are definitely not creative.
People, like Van Gogh, Ansel Adams, Rembrandt would look at landscapes, humans, things and would wonder how these would look like, differently.
Thus Creativity is all about perspective. It is all about looking at things in a way that is unique. Creativity is all about letting your imagination flow. Like looking at clouds dispersing and vanishing over the horizon. Let the imagination flow, like waves, and disperse, and alter itself, and change into something unusual and unlike.

I have many things to write and talk about, but perhaps, the ‘e’ for elephant and the ‘t’ for teddy bear effect, sometimes prevents me from raving and ranting.
I know we all have a right to voice our thoughts, but then, there are times, when we just need to give a deaf ear, and a blind eye to things.

I got up very early this morning, and for once enjoyed sipping coffee and letting the early December morning breeze to waft in and strike my bare face and arms. It gave me a great sense to be alive and breathing fresh air. I think this is the best time to be in Dubai. Okay, the traffic is still not so good, but then, if you live or travel to most big cities, then you would not expect it any better. Hear, hear!

I read this article sometime back and some of the wordings have been on the back of my mind for some time. I thought it would be nice to share it with you all.

in life we need to be in the right place to find the next clue to our lives. Is there a clue that we are ignoring? Are we holding onto our current "right place?" Being in the right place is not a permanent right place. You are in the right place to receive the next clue that will take you to the next right place.
Does this make sense? Not a lot? Well, let me try and explain this.
As Shakespeare put it (in my wording), we are just actors in a large story in a huge theatre (the world) but in a story that we do not know how it is going to end.
Our life is like a train journey, and we live in a compartment which we share at a given time with other people. The train stops at a platform, and some people get in, and others get out.
All the people in the compartment have some impact on our lives. We learn to love, we learn to hate, we are enlightened, or merely find it depressing.
The secret to this success lies in the fact that each time we exit a platform, we should get into a compartment that is slightly better than the first. Meaning, that we should learn and not let anything stop us from learning or finding out more.
Compartments will change, platforms will be different, the directions will be equivocal, but our train journey will remain.
It is our journey that we are undertaking. Our feelings and emotions and learning; no one else’s.
Everyone has their own chance in life. It is what you learn that only matters most.
I recently came across a very important fact in my life and I learned a lot from it. An astrologer wrote about his to a friend of mine and it has remained etched into my memory.
We are all chained or shackled to our limitations only. As Richard Bach puts it, “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” And “You teach best, what you most need to learn.”
So, what does this mean. It insinuates the fact that we, and only we, are responsible for our destinies. We can dictate it and run it. It is our choice only if we want to remain in the same compartment, on the same platform on our train. Or we can change platforms and change the stations and the compartments.
So, how do we do this?
Check for the right clues. We are always in the right place. But, are there only ‘One Right Place’ in our lives.
No, not at all. A clever and successful person is one who reads the right clues and goes forward. Nothing ever stops anyone, but he or she himself/herself.
That is all there is to life.
You can buy many books, but you may choose not to learn anything from them at all.
The nice thing about the journey of life is that you are always in the right place to receive the next clue, and even if you ignore or reject the clue, it will come back around until you finally recognize it as YOUR next clue.

Take care my friends and remember what ever you are doing right now, do it well. Life is simply what you learn to make of it.

Until next time, chao.