Picasso famously said, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
With all of my years working with young children, I definitely believe it. Children are bubbling over with creativity and curiosity. They sing and dance, draw and tell stories. The pretend and imagine, ask questions and seek to understand. It’s why I believe that everyone is uniquely creative. The creativity and curiosity that we had as children doesn’t just dry up and disappear. We may have closed ourselves off from it as we grew older and conformity and fitting in became greater and greater concerns. We may simply not see how we are creative believing that we’re not creative geniuses or that we’re not artsy or musical or literary.
However, we are creative in many practical ways in our lives, and we are always making creative decisions whether we see them as creative or not. Creativity isn’t only for special people or only for certain types of people doing certain activities. We are all creative. We have only lost sight of it. We have to open ourselves once again to our creativity and try seeing the world like we did as children and fill ourselves with wonder and curiosity.
We create our world through our choices. So, what kind of world are we creating for ourselves, for our loved ones, and for our fellow humans?