A Thought Experiment On Creativity
You should always bring out the creative impulses inside you. Now, these creative impulses can be of two types. One, you want to throw out all the garbage that you have accumulated over the years and two, you want to express something into this world that wants to be expressed through you. And doing both the things is important. No matter what kind of creative urge you have you must express both of them. If you don’t express the first kind it will make you and keep you psychologically sick. And if you don’t express the second kind then it will destroy your soul, your very identity. It becomes easy to imagine the regrets that you will have when you imagine yourself lying on your deathbed. If you are not totally unfortunate, you will know which bed is your deathbed. So, imagine you are lying on your deathbed and now you feel the urge to create something (a piece of art). But now, your hands don’t move. Your legs don’t move and neither does your mouth. You know, it’s because you are...