Do you know you’re
alive?
It seems like an
obvious question. Descartes summed it up in his famous statement, ‘I think,
therefore I am.’ There is no way you can doubt your existence because the very
fact of your doubt proves it.
Do you appreciate the
fact that you are alive, or do you subsist? The tragedy of many lives can be
measured in passivity. The mind-numbing routine of work in a soulless office
followed by the desperate grasping of distraction and oblivion through
television, the pub, computer games, and Facebook.
Stagnation, boredom.
Endless repetition of
meaningless activity is not proof of existence. Active engagement with life is.
If you want to be
creative you must choose to live consciously.
It may be easier to
conform, to follow the masses and refuse to think for yourself, but in doing so
you put a gun to your head. Either through laziness or fear you refuse the
challenge of confronting the reality of being human and being alive, thereby
guaranteeing misery and failure.
The creative person
will always choose to engage with existence. To bring anything new into
existence means giving it attention and committing to giving it life.
Nothing can live fully
without consciousness.
What makes you feel
alive and fires your passion for existence? Post your inspirations below… Next time: Loving
First posted here: http://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2014/04/09/living-creatively-in-a-mad-world-existing/
