I hadn’t planned on sending a blog this weekend, but after hearing this exchange between a mother and her daughter earlier today, I simply wanted to share something short and sweet.
I was walking through the park when I saw mother and daughter playing together; they were playing ‘bus drivers’ and the mother said:
“Where do you want to go?”
Her daughter replied with a sparkle:
“Wherever the unicorns are!”
It reminded me of William Blake’s quote “what is now known was once only imagined.”
It all begins with imagination.
Imagining what is possible, imagining the thing that you want most, and believing it could become reality.
As grown ups, our instinctive ability to imagine and create decreases with the inevitable pressures of navigating the complexities of adult life; but as Lucy Colgan asks “does creativity then become a luxury or is it a necessity”?
In my view, it is a necessity.
Creativity comes from our ability to play, get messy, be imperfect, dream, imagine. When we are in a creative mindset, ideas undoubtedly begin to fizz and flow out of us like a rainbow of possibility.
Creating intentional space to create can feel uncomfortable, it can feel as though we are going against the grain of how ‘busy’ we are supposed to be. It can be daunting because with creativity there are also unknowns, who knows what we will create and where it will take us.
That is all part of it, that is all part of the path less travelled.
“You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs” ~ Katherine Center
Where do you want to go?
What is your unicorn equivalent?
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