Have you ever stopped to ponder what the difference is between surviving and living? Or the difference between an ok day and a great day? Or what makes us individuals and interesting?
Although the last few months here in southern Sudan have been much more stress free and fun, I have recognised in me the need to be creative. It isn't a need for water, or health, or food. It isn't a survival need or even the need for a break. But a regular dose of creativity is the thing that allows us to lift our heads out of the day to day work or monotony or hardship and actually live.
All of us have the potential to be creative and to rock at it. And actually all of us need it to really feel like we are alive and that life IS worth living.
Creativity comes in all forms, whether it is painting, or drawing, or dancing, or sculpting, or writing, or making music, or cooking, or any other number of things. Those of you who say, "but I am just not any good at those things", let me ask you, "Do you enjoy any of those things?". If the answer is 'yes' then you already have the talent in you to do that thing.
One of the keys to really having a life in some of these places where it seems difficult to live, is to take time to express yourself artistically. And it is possible to do even in the most difficult of circumstances.
I was thinking about this the other morning and the following commands came to me after a time of feeling scared about the uncertainty of the future:
"Dare to dream. Dare to pray. Dare to act."
And the image you see is what I drew thinking about these commands.
So go on...I dare you! :)
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