Here’s something you are no doubt already aware of: It’s easy not to be creative.
It’s easy to not to write or draw or do the thing that you are called to do. We are surrounded by so many stories of creative yearning and lack that we bond together in conversation over what we would rather be doing, over our constant lack of time.
It can all get rather boring.
We constantly and persistently argue against our own happiness and what’s more, we are very good at it.
I don’t have any magic solution for finding you more time, other than to say, I know what it’s like to be busy. I feel the strain of it constantly,
But I also know what it’s like to not make time for the things that I love (in my case drawing and writing) and I can tell you, it makes you miserable.
And with this in mind, I wonder if the biggest piece to making time for what you love is not time at all but trust. We have to trust that our ideas are worth valuing. That the things that sparks our curiosity mean something.
I remember talking to my friend on the phone and when she asked me what I was doing, I told her I was drawing lots of birds.
I said to her, I don’t know where it’s going or exactly where it’s leading, but I have to trust that the kind of love that I feel, and the desire to do it means something. That it doesn’t exist for nothing.
I really feel that to be true of all our art. You have to trust that it means something. And once you truly believe that, you will start to find the time.
I do not mean this flippantly. I understand that many of us are exhausted and truly pressed for time.
Which means, we have to let go of what the ideal looks like- big blocks of times, oceans of days laid out before you- and start to snatch creative moments in minute blocks.
I want to remind you that your curiosities, you desires and your creative yearnings exist for a reason. And that as a consequence, do whatever you can to find the time.
Do it like your life depends on it. Because I’m of the opinion that it actually does.
xx Jane
If you fancy drawing birds, Winging It starts next week! It’s designed to be completed in less than an afternoon, or if you want to space it out, half an hour a week for 4 weeks! We’ll draw all kinds of birds; from reference, life and imagination.
