never forget the dragons
So, it's been a fairly good week for issues, but instead of posting and raging over them, I've just done my raging privately and focused on my latest writing project. I'm very glad that I'm an artistic/creative person, because I have no idea what I would do with myself if I had no outlet for all of this. Although I wonder if high emotions and the
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I have to say it's there and it's not. Being rather emotional might need an outlet and there for lead to creativity and if you're creativity you need to get more in touch with your emotions. It seems like some good painters really draw on emotional stuff too. On the other hand, more commercial artists have to focus on working past their emotions. I guess take all of that as you will.
I don't know if I have a bit of a Peter Pan thing or not, but I'd bet money that anyone in the fantasy or the children's genres of pretty much anything haven't grown up all the way. I don't think you can really get imaginative stuff if you 'grow up' all the way and really forgot what it was like to be a kid. It probably extends to other genres to a certain degree, but the more imaginative, the more of that little kid imagination is left (or at least I think so).
In college I feel like the distinction is even more clear than it is elsewhere (just because it's primarily young adults, on their own, without younger relatives who might influence them - siblings or eventually children). You can usually tell who still has some imagination and who doesn't (though I've also noticed that a lot of science/engineering kids can be creative so it's not like it's just the arts that have them). Some people might get back in touch with it later, but that's a bit of a tangent.
I guess it's a good philosophy to remember the dragons, but I don't think I've ever even thought of forgetting them. I'll admit that I'm not exactly the same as when I was a kid and I don't really play with my toys anymore, but I do think I still have an element of it. Sometimes I think that my toys miss that, but I'm afraid I wouldn't know how to play to them.
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