Embrace Your Creative Expression

[carter1990]

I wrote an open response in my motor development class about what I learned. I feel my words can help you to start embracing your creativity or continue to do so . Whether its writing poety, writing, singing, drawing etc......

I also used to not listen to a band if it was frowned upon in my social circle. Music is music if it makes you feel good

Here is my open response to my teacher....

Every human being goes through adolescence a stage in which your experiences shape the outlook of your life. I always believed there was something missing in my life, even as a child. I focused on some negative aspects of my life but in reality I was very much a kid with so much to be grateful for. I grew up thinking I had so much missing but had so many great experiences with family, friends, and organized sports. In a Goo Goo Dolls song entitled “Before it’s too late” a line in that song greatly sharpens a truth I have come to realize; “Nothing is real until its gone”. To me it means sometimes in the moment we don’t recognize the magic around us. As we get older we sometimes forget the beauty that is all around us. When we are in adolescence we are in a crossroads between childhood and adulthood. My Grandpa always said “The steps you take in the beginning inevitably shape your outcome”.

This very much follows motor development in that the first few years of life can shape your motor skills. Often concepts and theories don’t hold any bearing in real world application and that’s what I initially felt after hearing about the adolescence unit. To be honest I felt like it was overcomplicated to make it seem more important than it was but I really understand its importance. The first concept suggests our experiences dictate our growth physically, mentally and spiritually. I could look negatively on my life; I could say I never made it to the big leagues and leadoff for the boston redsox playing centerfield but my childhood experiences taught me one very important concept that can never be taken away from me; there really is a love that exists in friendship and family. That can never be taken away from me.This love cares nothing about dollar signs, physical traits, social status, and outcome of your pursuit. As an adolescent I was both bewildered and a little scared of the world but it is my wonderment it truly shaped my creativity.

In this world we have society telling a child how he should and shouldn’t be, I think adolescence is where a child’s should express his creativity. Although I believe the most creative people in this world are sometimes ridiculed the most influential people are those whose bewilderment of adolescence carried within them into adulthood. All the numbers and figures in “Understanding Motor Development” point to a greater concept; our early years and transition shape our outlook on life in adulthood. John Lennon said in a quote:

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

I used to say I hated school that I thought it was a waste and although I can’t remember many of the concepts I know it is the place I created loving friendships. That made it all worth it. My adolescent years were not filled with despair as I thought for so long there were loving times that I wouldn’t replace. I wouldn’t change my friends, town I grew up in or those I was blessed to have in my life. It was Ronnie van zant in the song “simple man” who said “follow your heart and nothing else”. I greatly appreciated chris farley’s physical comedy even at a tender age of six years old, I love little Debbie oatmeal pies to this day and still laugh at Homer Simpson. As much as I’ve think I’ve grown I’m still that same kid that dreams of being a professional athlete, who believes in friends and family.