The Process of Creating

Yesterday we talked about the process of experiencing life. Today we'll talk about learning to create.

You've read elsewhere on these pages that all it takes is seeing, believing, and creating. And in the highest sense, that's correct. But maybe there's a little more going on than meets the eye.

Learning to Create.

In its simplest form, creation results from envisioning what we want to create and then mobilizing the resources needed to accomplish that creation. And along the way, negotiating the minefield of wills and desires behind other people's efforts at creation.

All of those creations start first with an idea, and a belief we can get it. At first it's easy. We want it. We do what it takes to get it. And when we can't, we try to convince others to help us get it.

Often we're thwarted, and told we can't have it all. So we eventually accept the limitations of our inability to create what we want, and settle for what we get. This settling for less is often a big part of our discontent in life, especially the so-called midlife crisis.

Yet the desire never quite goes away. Sometimes we substitute another desire more easily attained. Other times we just push it into the darker reaches of our minds, where it festers and eats away at us inside. And that's where many of us stop.

Some, though, heed an inner urge to address their discontent. That might lead to career or family changes. But what's really happening is a call to look inside, to understand who and what we are, and what's going on inside us.