Follow

Tuesday, 22 July 2014

The Gifted creativity of Life.

"I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We don't use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral or you can electrocute a person with it."
Maya Angelou.

Talent is an inborn gift, but creativity is a skill. Though an inborn talent, one has to reach out and take it. That taking may be as difficult as not waiting until it manifests on its own. It is the underlying passion, a feeling inside,that brings it out, loaded with words and a lot of meaning. It is long patience, an effort and intense observation that flows out. Talent is having a fountain of words in the mind. Not everyone has an underlying talent and rare is the courage to follow that talent and make it creative.

Talent is always on its own level, which rises like the sun, rested, refreshed and  ready to dawn; always full and aplenty with new treasures. Those that are genuinely talented are unaware of their own ability and potential. It has its own increases and decreases, like everything that breathes. As Sophia Loren quotes, There is a fountain of youth: It is in your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love."

Writing is a play of words, adeptly placed and turns out to be either a prose or a poem. Writing a poem is an inborn talent and a poem is usually a whisper, a shout, thoughts turned inside out, a laugh, a sigh, an echo passing by, a rhythm, a rhyme, a moment caught in time, a fear, an anguish, an epitome, an euphoria, or a glimpse of who you are. It is often like a spider's web beautifully spun with words of wonder, with all the woven laces that is held in place by the whispers of the heart. The depth and meaning of a true poem lies in the intricately placed words and the spirit between the lines.

Gifted is a man who has the innate ability to do a particular thing, it is talent inborn, one can really never change it because it is fixed inside and cannot be lost. Creativity is a skill to write or create something in a unique way. As the saying goes" Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare." It is a rare eye that sees and captures those that are realistic and natural. The creativity is a skill that can be developed with experience, and experience is a knowledge one gains through grit and perseverance. There is a strong relationship between talented, creativity and experience.

Some just blow up their talent and passion; while some use their talent to connect to everything around them with creativity and experience it. Be it writing, photography, painting or any form of art and craft, it is the passion and the underlying inborn talent that makes them creative and experience makes them excel. While talent is inborn, creativity is an ability that needs to be noticed, recognized and nurtured to bloom. An opportunity for the creative talent to be expressed. It is the characteristics of creative talent to be curious, persistent, metaphorical and open to ideas.

Only a gifted man can play with words and bring forth what is in the mind. It is creative talent that bleeds from the pen, in the form of chords that tug the heart, create a flutter, touch the soul to ponder over or dive into its depth to sink and then float in them. It lingers on in your heart, mind and soul to haunt, provoke thoughts, contemplate or inspire. The command over the language and the expertise to use it the right way is an added ability to the creativity of talent.

Creativity is a mind skill that equips a man in any area. What matters more is to make use of the gifted talent to create, a natural ability and flair to make something that is beautiful. The beauty is developing analytic, creative and practical skills without the 'know-hows' and that comes out of a gifted talent and the zest to be creative. Life as such is creative in all its forms. It is a gift of life to be born talented, becoming creative is an added skill and experience adds beauty to everything.

"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke.

Believe in the underlying talent,
Create the unbelievable masterpiece,
Challenge all hurdles,
Shine like the sun,
That your name depicts.

Burst out through the clouds,
With worded rays,
That shrouds in cluttered clusters,
In the depth of your,
Heart and soul.

Be reminded of your infinite potential,
With the pen that is mightier than the sword,
Let thoughts always flow out,
To reach the expanse of the sky,
And reach greater heights of life."


2 comments:

Silhouettes said...

Lovely piece of inspiring note and verse.Being talented alone wont make anyone scale the peeks, but that zeal and zest to carve out a niche too is required. Creativity and talent if complement each other, you have a winner there. Sometimes, when people get into the shell of self doubts,creativity suffers. A positive environment is what it needs for the creativity to flourish.The other day, a friend was sharing that, though the writers or be it any creative persons, ply their trade primarily to satiate their own urge, without a word of approval or a nod of acknowledgement, the doubts would creep in on the acceptance factor and whether what is conjured actually connects.
Keep enlightening us by more of such articles.

Geetha Paniker said...

Thank you Arun for that insight.