Creativity As Self Protection

Every day it feels like a new person or thing has the answer to all of life’s problems. It makes me think about how creativity and uniqueness is becoming more of a superpower. Being able to think and be different is a commodity. It is proof that your strength lies within. When you are highly creative, you are wealthy spiritually. For years I felt “different” and I hated it. I wanted nothing more than to be able to blend in and often failed at trying to do so. As of late though, I started to wonder if maybe I’d been wrong all these past years. Maybe my individuality wasn’t actually a curse but a blessing in disguise. One that others could clearly see in me despite my attempts to reject it. At a time where people are following trends and trying to fit in, it is powerful to be someone who has the ability to create the flow. This is a power that I feel you can only tap into if you are disconnected from the expectations those around you set for you. To see someone who is living a life that seems vision board-like is to see someone with complete confidence in themselves. It is the beauty of their complete trust in themselves that radiates outward. It is one thing to say you’re different and it’s another thing to live a life that is actually different. People who are living heart centered lives are thinking differently because their faith is in the spiritual. They protect their inner world, create from within and inspire. 

For a while I wondered what it meant to truly think differently. I thought it meant to act like the people I saw living variations of the life I desired. Now I feel like my future self is the version of me I feel afraid to be. It’s who I’ve always secretly known I was but felt like I didn’t have permission to be. I feel like thinking differently just means choosing to trust myself and relying purely on my own validation. It means nurturing a space within that I can trust will bring me to my wildest dreams. Thinking differently is about shedding the part of me that feels she has to be who others told her she should be. It is having the audacity to live a life created by hand. Creativity is the tool that makes this possible and to actively protect it, is self confidence.