Line Obsession: "The word beautiful came to his mind, but he shook it off." -Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson
I've had this question stuck in my head for about a week now, well longer than that but it's popped back up this week.
What is it that stirs you to create? What is it that you then create? Do you write, paint, dance, come up with plays in a game, sew, cook, sing/play music?
This week I went to some extra-credit thing for students with licensure tagged onto their majors. The speaker brought up the theory that to create is one of the highest levels of thinking and development. While I agree, I also thought of something Natalie Lloyd always says about how since we are made in the image of the creator we can't help but create.
It's bugging me though that I don't yet know what it is that I create. I've never felt "creative" and have always been dazzled by my siblings who are musicians and my friends who are artists. In fact, once I got to college I realized that nearly all of my friends can fall under one of the two aforementioned categories. And where do I fit in?
So I was talking to my friend about this after the lecture and she told me, "Allie, I think you create conversation. I mean look at us right now, we're talking about who knows what and you brought us here."
I want to be satisfied with that, I earnestly do. But I feel like anyone can create good conversation. I guess I just want to be able to create something that I can know will last....but I guess everyone feels that way deep down. Even Van Gogh did...which brings me to my next and nerdiest point.
I am having a
But I can't very well help myself. David Tennant especially, but Matt Smith too are just too darn cute (and don't worry, Christopher Eccleston will always hold a special place in my heart, cause he was the first one I saw yada yada yada)
I mean, c'mon. He's such a comedian. Whenever I see him and Catherine Tate together it makes me nearly angry that I'm American and not British/Scottish. If you haven't watched The Decoy Bride go to netflix right away and watch it. The girl is the voice of Merida and then there's David Tennant as a goofy helpless British man, a far cry from the doctor.
My friend made a good point in saying that it's a completely godless show but I think part of the reason I'm so drawn to it is because the doctor is such a God/Christ figure. And nearly everything about him makes me want to rely on/root for him and I know he's already won no matter what. He loves fellowship, he's just yet merciful, and he feels so passionately about protecting the human race and realizes that we're completely daft.
Or maybe it's just because he's a wonderful character, such an old soul with so much life left. And also that it's just an adventure, because whether you realize it or not you are traveling with the doctor. You're one of his companions and you get to see all these species and places and get to become his dear friend.
Gracious me....
Anyway, would love to hear your take on the creativity subject, or doctor who, or whatever you're reading right now. (I'm in-between Man of Feeling [a proto-modernist novel from the 18th century for my Novels in English course] and Bridge to Terabithia [for children's lit]).
