Creativity
I got in trouble as a child a lot. I know it's hard to believe, but this righteous woman has always learned to test boundaries where they were most uncomfortable. This is what earned me the title of "creative." I wasn't able to do many of the things in a rote kind of way, instead, I was also seeking the new and improved way to do it, and if it failed, it was because it was time to try something else, and more often than not, I did. Yes it did cause some difficult moments where I had to call my parents and tell them what trouble I was in today or detention for fighting, that kind of thing.
It is the spirit of creativity and thinking differently that has gotten many other people in trouble. Thinking out of the box is nothing that is readily accepted in many cultures, including American culture, but it is this very thinking that needs to be a part of the educational system. Multiculturalism, or the acknowledgment of other cultures in their contribution to our way of being today, is something that has encountered much opposition from educators and politicos alike because it asks that you look at the multiplicities of the world around us. We cannot assume that everyone else sees the world just like we do, nor can we assume that we are right. We, that large pronoun, are hardly ever right in its absolute.
So I challenge you today to peep some things going on, question its source, question the reasons behind what you are peeping and check your own values and how they tint the way we see things.
Think of your values and experiences as a pair of glasses, and then ask how it affects our way of seeing the world. Creativity, or seeing the world differently, exists everyday and in every way is the reason why the world is not such a terrible place.
Voodoo
Thursday, June 14, 2001
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