Looking Through A Creative Eye*

Friends, when I heard about this seminar, I had thousands of butterflies in my stomach. What on earth could be a good topic for me to speak on! But then to find the solution to that problem, I became a bit creative. Didn’t look at the world around for a topic. Instead, just peeped into my mind to get a topic related to my ownself. And then the word that yelled out is nothing but CREATIVITY.

Creativity is simply making your aesthetic sense speak out your imaginations. Girls, if you wanna look gorgeous, go get the best dress that suits you, not the costliest one, but the unique one that matches with your mental hues, that reflects your aura. Guys, if you wanna impress your girl, just take a small piece of matchbox, pack it with a black chart paper, break matchsticks into small pieces, and stick them on the box writing the name of your ladylove, encircled by a lovely love sign. And who knows the very moment she will be yours.

On 5th of September next year are you planning to buy your teacher an elegant fountain pen from parker and a musical Archie’s card? Well you will be happy to spend some money on them, to show respect to your beloved teacher. But your teacher will be happier and highly pleased to see you cut out a black-board shaped piece of cardboard and write two lines on it – not a literary excellence, but just the correct use of grammar and damn simple words that comes straight from your heart – just two lines, that’s all, nothing more than that.

You love your mom, and wanna make her enjoy her birthday in style? Don’t think about the yummy delicacies from the best restaurants of the city. Don’t think about any INN, think what’s there IN you. Just make a dish on your own as simple as sojne phool-er bora, and serve it hot with pudina chatni garnished with tomato slices, and I assure you, she will be more than enthralled, no matter if you have added too much of salts and pepper in that or a little less than required.

Creativity is not a hard-to-create thing. It’s something God has already created in you, and you don’t recognize it so far. We all are gifted with certain amount of creative skills, but we take too much time to unwrap that gift and make use of it. So the next time, a big occasion or just an usual Sunday morning, be creative and decorate your house with colored papers for your mom’s birthday or cook your own recipe for your dad. And let the magic happen.



* A write up on a seminar topic for my fellow classmate