We all have it, a gallery of ideas, of art we wanted to create, and just didn't. Some of the unmade art would have been brilliant, the best we ever made. It would have communicated a message, expressed our feelings, moved other to laughter or tears. Some of it would have been unremarkable. Some of it may have not worked. But we will never know, because we didn't create it, we didn't make it.
Life gets in the way. Work, family, health, resources; we have more excuses than the art store has colors of paint. There is an old saying that excuses are like assholes, we all have one, and most of them stink. Fears and insecurities get our way. We don't start because we are unsure we know what we are doing. We don't start because we are afraid of the outcome. And we will never know, until we overcome all of this and start. It is time to not let excuses and fears get in the way.
Inside each of us is a brilliant creative spirit, we need to let it free. Pick up a pencil, a pen, squirt some paint out and grab a brush, frame the photo with a camera or phone, go boldly into the kitchen and play with our food, open a blank document or blog post and start putting ideas on paper. At the end of the week, the month, the year, the end of our life, we want to look back a gallery filled with what we created, what we made, not an empty gallery of excuses, fears and regrets.
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