why you should create like a kid again

I've been struggling a lot with allowing myself to create freely. Between constantly feeling overwhelmed by my own expectations (or those of others) and comparing myself to those around me, it’s easy to lose sight of the joy in creating and why you got started in the first place. Finding this old journal reminded me that letting go of perfectionism might just be the key to finding that creative spark again, time to get out of that rut 😎

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[spontaneousadventurouskid]

Im glad youtube recommended this. We need to stop bullying our inner child with rules and let them create.

[wxngechi]

“Creating something that might seem imperfect to you is always going to be better than not creating anything at all” taking this point home❤

[melaniegriesemer]

“We have the ability to create freely - it’s just a matter of rediscovering it” I love this!!

[That__Guy]

This! I have only understood this recently while watching my 6 year old draw. He wasn't drawing for a result, but he was whispering to himself while he did it. When I startet to listen I realized, that he was telling a story, which evolved over the course of his painting. He told of heroes fighting bad guys or of kingdoms being attacked and defending themselves, sometimes he tells a minecraft story or just thinks of how the sun is rising and setting again. And for the first time in at least a decade I found myself not thinking "I wish I could be as good as artist xyz" but thinking "I just want to be free like this" and then I did it. I just started drawing. And since then, like 2 months ago, I probably painted at least one if not two pictures a day. I didn't like the result of most of them, but I do remember the time spent drawing some of them and where I was when I made them and how I did it and what I learned. It just feels so liberating.

[bedirhan]

"its about this constant battle we have between our inner child and inner critic"

right on point

[MajorTrollerHAK]

I find this to be a coincidence. Today in class there was a piece of paper from another class on the table I was sitting at it. I took a pen I got from the career fare earlier today and decided to try it out. I start scribbling, big lines, don't stop, I want to hear the pen crave its way on the paper constantly until I drew a tree. Then a bouquet of roses, and then a cube, cone, and a cylinder. In the end they were all raw, imperfective yet perfect. I left the drawings for whoever comes after to see. Not a picture or anything to take with me, other than a memory.

[lyndeejomei]

Girl. Not one word was lost in translation. Thank you for starting somewhere and making something, I cried, this was really beautiful.

[WIMMYY]

A part of it comes from the fact that the world is kinder when you're a kid. When you show up with a sketch as a child, you're praised; if you do the same thing as an adult, you're judged. This constant chain of feedback numbs free expression, and creativity becomes more about pleasing others than about yourself.
PS: Loved the video! <3

[zoecirina]

Beautiful video. I would also add, however, that you don't NEED to create. We constantly write posts, comments, make pictures or videos, sometimes imagining how other people might like them. Do you (everyone) ever do something just for yourself? Create something and keep it for yourself? Or what you offer to other people is what define you? I realised it after dropping out of social media, sometimes I write my journal entries as if I was writing a Instagram post, but everything feels so limited when we use the outside standard as a baseline for ourselves. I have not taken a picture in 2 years, I don't feel the need. But recently I got a camera to document my foraging finds and be able to identify plants with books at home. Or other times I write a poem, and keep it hidden in a journal for years, until I find it back and am either cringed or very surprised by it. I don't really know where I'm going with this post just, maybe, yeas, not only create like a child but be mindful and careless about the opinion of others, because a low self esteem is generally associated to a too high consideration of others.

[TheBrandonnnn]

I used to create allll the time. I had a youtube sketch comedy show from 2006-08. I used to make (music) mashups all the time. Then mental health and life started creepin in, and in my teens I slowly started losing the desire. Then in adulthood, its like I just completely forgot about being creative. Now at age 30, I've finally decided to get back to who I was. I'm starting a new youtube channel this year, and also learning to play the sax. I feel amazing already and I haven't even started yet.

[LaytonObserves]

Tapping back into your inner child to create art is so important. I think we lose that ability as we get older, partially as a consequence of our culture being too "left brained."

[Sylar-]

I'm trying to write a book that will take many years if not the rest of my life. feel so frozen today though. love the video!

[innesdunbar]

Having a travel journal will be a nice reminder of your trip, it’s so good you have the one from years ago to look back on. I started a travel journal on this year’s holiday, more just a record of what we did for future reference, but I like the idea of adding tickets and reminders to turn them into little scrap books. I don’t think of myself as creative, but I suppose it doesn’t matter.

[HariPowellMusic]

Never stop playing. Never stop creating.

[VioletaMeyners]

I'am 45, I could probably be your mom :-) and yet I connected so deeply with your thoughts! I was deprived of so many things as a child that now in my adult life I crave simple things like painting, travelling alone, so I started doing everything I missed out as a kid and never been happier! I encourage my 16 yr old son to explore life and try new things every day, because we will never regret the things we tried, failed and tried again, but most certainly the things we didn't!

[mvschooten]

Imperfection is what makes live perfect

[LouisRUFFIN-gmnk]

Thank you for caring enough to say that and remind me something I knew as a child without really understanding thay I knew then this nugget of wisdom you blessed us with who is an artist of any kind.

To create for just the joy of creating.

Creating for the love and the passion of it without trying to create what someone else might want to see or running yourself insane trying to create someone else's vision to gain some kind of money pay off.

We need money to live on, but money isn't worth you selling your vision or your soul

[StudioDharmaEarth]

I feel very much. My old journals are painted and written on, stuck with things that I liked. Today I am happy when I can fill my diary with sentences. I would like to have that lightness as a child again. But I am on the right track 💚💚

[listen_to_clay]

Я с 5-6 лет занимаюсь рисованием, затем живописью, затем и скульптурой, вплоть до 25, и могу сказать, что лучшее что можно сделать в рисунке(и пологаю и во многом другом) - это наблюдать (observe). 59 минут, просто неотрывно наблюдать и 1 минуту создавать. Не бегать и суетиться, не искать глазами, а просто спокойно рассматривая созерцать и прислушиваться к тому что сейчас окружает, вот только так рождается что-то совершенное.

[jackcloud]

Woah, 6:12 hits me so hard, I remember back in 2022 when I first started journaling seriously and then there were a lot of pages that were supposed to be filled with big events and important things for the future remain blank to this day due to perfectionism, and even though I've learned the lesson over and over again, I still struggle with it right now. But I'm sure I won't let it happen again this time.