I’ve since revised the angle this post aims to cover; instead of that adage, I’m emphasising more about the benefits that can come about with creating and what it meant to me as an individual.
- Within the post, I covered things like different perspectives in which creating can help you as an individual — to put yourself out there; to remember yourself; to grow.
- The shift in my thinking as I wrote and planned this draft live. It’s fascinating reading back about my own line of thinking and how it has gradually shifted to unveil the more inner thoughts that I had going on.
- For example: in a first brain dump, I had thought I wanted to talk a bit about those young adult influencers who document their “process of becoming”; I believed I lacked the confidence or what it took to create, but then suddenly came to a realisation as I was writing that I have already been participating in a process of creating!
Original working title: Create in a world of consumption
In the cadence of today’s world, it can get easy to feel swept up by the pace at which everything’s going. You can sometimes feel like your life is passing you by because you’re so occupied with trying to consume as much as you can — with the bandwidth, capability, and storage that you aren’t necessarily prepared to handle.
- I guess this is where I came across the saying that exerts that, in a world of consumption, you should try to create. I’m still grappling personally with what exactly I should create, and more importantly through what medium.
- I’m inspired to see some youth in Singapore online start this journey of posting themselves online, but I feel like they represent a certain flavour of people where doing so is part of their brand — the side goal is usually to advance a side hustle they’re working on, leveraging upon the reputation and following they’ve built in posting their personal selves online as a springboard.
- I don’t oppose this trend, but I feel like it’s a little bit disingenuous as well; but maybe it’s because I’m viewing things from different angles? Where I’m coming in from the perspective of living, feeling alive, they could be incorporating that with a greater hint of putting themselves out there.
- Rebuttal: you could say that I’m generalising too much and putting many people who each have their own perspectives and goals into the same basket when they don’t deserve to?
- This ties in to my personal experience with memory, where I sometimes struggle to relieve memories that remind me of who I am.
- Life can feel monotonous and boring if you participate in it merely as an observer. Is to live to partake; to create?
- You cannot really lose if you spend effort and energy in creating something; the fact that you’ve expended them rather than passively consuming in itself can inject value into life.