Sometimes you slowly grow into a certain demographic until you have one of those monumental realizations that you should have been following said direction a little more closely in life. I am talking about "creatives" and they (we) are somewhat set apart and distinct from those who do not have such traits to claim.
Just to get this out in the air a little more quickly, I will say that there is no form of elitism in being a creative as a whole, but there are just as many cocky and arrogant people which throw a blanket of stereotype over the entire lot. The thing is, we cannot really help who we are and how we are wired, but a few take the wrong approach. Some of us came into the creative realization when we were young and some (like me) picked up on the fact much later.
With that, I will share some discoveries with you which have come to me through my own experience.
Creatives are just fine being alone.
Within this age of video games and social disconnect through technology, it is easy to lump us all into a big grouping of awkwardness. The truth of the matter is that I am well aware of being alone, and am in that state fairly often. When I was a teenager, I wanted to have something in the works every weekend and never allow myself to just be by myself. Since I have a creative psyche, I now wonder what I may have missed out on after spending too little time invested in myself for being distracted with insignificant happenings. I have a phone full of contacts I could use to have something to do every waking hour when I am not working, but if I were doing so at this point, there would surely be missed opportunity in my writing, expression, or music. After years of never wanting to be by myself, go to dinner alone, or just sit in silence, it is now something I cherish. All of my most favorite writings have come from my time spent alone, focusing on myself; they are also the pieces I am the most proud of. None of this is saying I would reject an opportunity to do things with others, but saying creatives do not always require social settings and sometimes are just as healthy alone when left to their own thought processes.
Most creatives hate Pinterest.
I have a Pinterest account, but I have never actually logged on and it only exists so someone else does not claim my username. A fair share of hate may be brought in my direction for saying so, but Pinterest is generally a nightmare for creatives because you get a bunch of people reproducing the original ideas of the people who actually came up with something unique. Feeding off of ideas is one thing, but claiming creativity for replicating someone else's idea is an entirely different story. Claiming something as your own after finding it as a post on Pinterest is about as relevant as saying:
"He makes great pot roast in the slow cooker."
Meat, potatoes, onions, carrots, water, bullion, set timer...Anyone with two hands and a crock pot can do that and this is how most creatives feel about Pinterest. There is nothing wrong with using the site, as long as nobody claims anything plagiarized from it as their own creation.
Creatives are into details.
Within everything that I have seen in my twenty-seven years, there are just as many unorganized creatives as meticulous, but on either side of the fence, the details are always important. When I was nineteen, I bought this car:
After driving the car back home that very day, I took out my tools and gutted the interior. The car was like new, but the stereo was awful. Being one with a developed musical ear, I could not drive the car for any length of time without first replacing the head unit, speakers, and adding amplifiers and subwoofers to it. Having clear music in my ears is just as important to me as the joy of driving a muscle car like my Firebird was - I have done this with every car I have owned since then as well. I pick out details in music and that is a part of my creative mannerisms, so I like to hear it clearly. The same holds true for anything within the interest of creatives because the idea of "good enough" is never enough concerning creative detail in the things we enjoy.
Creatives enjoy personal exploration.
I get annoyed when people say they only listen to one type of music or limit themselves to what is played on the radio - there is much better music out there, I promise. As with anything else fitting in the scope of genres, creatives do not like limiting themselves to what happens to be popular at the time (and no, this doesn't mean "hipster") but would rather take it upon themselves to give a "hit or miss" approach to most things in life. Before I was intelligent enough to give any real consideration to Electronic Dance Music (EDM), I always thought it was garbage and irrelevant - then I started exploring a little. After watching a few videos about how EDM is made, my opinion changed and I have grown to appreciate it much more than I did in the past.
Example (listen to the depth in the music):
Much like anything with a set of rules, creatives would rather explore things on their own. Part of the reason of why I have not finished restoring my Mustang even though I am not that far away from completing it is because it is so mechanical and mapped out in a certain order and process to me. That was the first car I ever had, but at this point in time, I would rather break out a welder, some grinders, and an obsolete engine to build a Rat Rod out of some rusted out beater car pulled from a barn. Building a car like that would allow me to cut it to pieces and construct it in trial and error, just how I want to. But my Mustang is a number's matching, original car so I could never bring myself to chop it up in such a way - it is meant to be built just like my shop manual tells me to. My current want is to build a rolling metal sculpture - my Mustang is too pretty for that, so I am letting it sit for a while. I really want to transplant a 1940's-era Ford Flathead V8 into a late model Ford pickup truck. Not because it makes sense, but because it makes none at all and would be a challenge to fabricate. The latter idea is in the same boat with current bands releasing vinyl albums, or the people who make their own clothing - there is no practical reason for any of it, but that makes it even more challenging and fulfilling for them.
Part two will be out soon. Stay tuned.
-Drew
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