Follow Your Own Path (BlogChain)

Keep Nurturing Individual Creativity

Sridevi Krishnan Adds to the Chain

This blog post got me thinking about Lego building. Imagine giving two colours of Lego blocks to a group of first graders. One child builds a tall tower, carefully alternating the two colours. Another builds two twin towers, each in a single colour. Another creates a connected structure, almost like a small box. And another arranges the pieces like a train, one linked to the next.

Same pieces but different outcomes and as adults, we would do nothing but appreciate this.
“Look how tall your building is.”
“Wow, twin towers.”
“This box is so neatly connected.”
“A train, each block helping the next, how creative!”
We celebrate their original imagination.

Now, let us fast forward a few years where we’d start buying Lego sets. Now, the unsaid expectations (for the most part) take a shift towards following the instructions to build exactly what is shown. To be fair, this is an achievement. The number of pieces are more and the structures are complex. The steps require focus and patience while having fun.

But, notice the shift from creating something of our own to recreating something that already exists. This is not to say recreating is of lesser value. Both matter: recreating, and even rekindling the original imagination behind it.

Let us not forget to keep nurturing the individual creativity that fuels each of us to create something entirely our own.

Follow your own path (The Starting Point)

A Blog by Michelle Sanjana Satish

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. Paulo Coelho

Expectations

Society has its way of placing rules / norms of how we should live our lives. I think we have all come across this at some point, for example what stage you have to be in a career, how many degrees to obtain or when  to get married / have children . 

It Doesn’t Matter

We all have our own purpose, destiny in life. It is important to follow the route that we want to follow, it doesn’t matter if we are considered late bloomers . What matters is enjoying the journey of life rather than the destination.

Live the life that you want to live not the life that society has paved out.