I'm in my late forties and I feel my life hasn't even begun.
I have done some dancing in my younger years. I have recently gone down the route of colouring, which some people think is childish, but it helps me think.
I have visited the National Gallery and admired the workmanship of the paintings there. I have done some abstract drawing, no masterpiece by the way.
Music is pulsing through my veins too. I take part in a parish church choir. I stopped playing the piano, because it is too loud for me. I stopped playing the tin whistle, because it was causing tinnitus. I started playing the classical flute to help me recover from Covid. Now I love it. I will eventually return to the other instruments, but it needs to be gradual.
I need to emotionally and mentally sanitise myself from them to make them new again.
Writing helps me unburden anything that's weighing me down. Creativity is a personal journey like life itself. You shouldn't be unfairly critised for being yourself.
Art and creativity, they are meant to inspire good things in a person, to see the beauty in everything and everyone around you.
Books are created from the inside out, also paintings and pieces of music. Art and creativity are part of a tree. Creativity is the root and Art is the branch that grows into other art forms. You need to feed these with food to grow. This means feeding the human body to use creativity and Art as part of nature. Videos are a form of Art I.e films and music videos.
People who create the works of Art that we enjoy should be thanked, loved and respected, they did it with no regard for their own mental and physical health. They were insulted too.
If we love and respect pieces of Art then we are able to love and respect the people who created them. It is like any relationship it needs love, respect, listening, understanding, dignity, integrity.