Reigniting Your Creativity

Remember kindergarten when days lasted for months and everything was an adventure? There, imagination was free and plenty and there was no wrong or right. 

The first thing I remember creating were mud pies. I’d spend hours in my grandmother’s back yard pretending I was feeding friends and family with my delicious creations then seeing how high I could swing on the rusted out swing set. 

Life was good and simple. 

Fast forward to adulthood and my time working in an office when I was dead to the world by Wednesday. 

I had forgotten everything that made me happy and peaceful. I concentrated only on the hustle and being enough for others. 

One day after admitting that I just wasn’t happy, I made the random realization that I didn’t have a sketchbook. Growing up spending all my time in the art room at school, I was always creating something, but as an adult I was losing that more and more. 

So I got a sketchbook. 

Then the blank page terrified me. What would I draw? Could I even draw any more? 

In that moment, I flashed back to middle school where my friends and I would draw little doodles in the margins of our notebooks and textbooks (Don’t tell Mr. Barnes). We would draw all types of things like the infamous block s, bubble letters and of course eyes. 

So many eyes. Intensely open eyes with long lashes and dark pupils. 

(I wonder why we were so drawn to the eye? Was it just because they were simple to draw or was it something more? Was it something about what they represented or how they made us feel?)

So at this big age with my new sketchbook, I drew an eye. And another one and another one. It was easy and not intimidating. It allowed me to slow down, be present and get back to myself. 

Do you find yourself far away from the things that you love? 

Are you wishing that you could be more creative and find more passion in your life? 

If so, I challenge you to draw an eye; Any type of eye. 

Draw a cartoon eye or an anime eye. 

Draw a cat eye or a snake eye. 

Draw a circle with another circle inside and call it an eye. 

Draw an eye even if you don’t want to be an artist and especially if you don’t want to be an artist. 

It is said that the eye is the window to the soul. 

Drawing an eye or (if you are an overachiever) eyes isn’t about the drawing or the eyes. It’s about the moment of focus and intention. It is about searching for yourself among the hurry and the sadness. Drawing an eye is just the first step of many to seeing yourself and your life in a new way. 

If you are feeling adventurous or/and are especially proud of the eye(s) you’ve drawn feel free to post it below as a comment on this blog post so that we can all see. You can either post just your drawing or to tell us how the activity made you feel and how many eyes you have drawn recently.