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# I don't mean a baby
but it was easy to make things that I liked and thought were fun or interesting. I miss the sense of wonder
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 4:58, archived)
# We're just as gifted as adults,
but we're conditioned to create and produce for competitive reasons. Takes all of the risk / art / joy out of it.

School grades, for instance, or work quotas. People are too stressed out about their performance to sit back and marvel at what they do. It's not good unless it "beats" the other guy's stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:01, archived)
# I'm not competitve with other people
maybe with myself. I just am not doing stuff that I like anymore.
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:03, archived)
# No... not you necessarily.
But we're all a part of a system that is obsessed with standardizing and ranking everything we do. Creativity and originality are lost arts because they can't be measured.

I'm not competitive, either. I'm using that as an example because I just took my GREs again yesterday. Too much stress over something that doesn't have a lot of significance.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:07, archived)
# tests don't stress me out
the gre's were a pain because I had to pay for them.

I don't know. I just want to make something beautiful and I can't.

I don't know if it's my perception or my creativity that has changed, but it makes me sad
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:10, archived)
# What did you make as a child
that you considered beautiful?

Edit: Sounds nosy. Oh well, I'll leave it.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:11, archived)
# anything I made was
because I wouldn't bother to make it otherwise
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:12, archived)
# Hmm
That's an interesting way of putting it.

I was always told that I was a creative child, but I never saw it. These days I think I'm more creative than I actually am, probably.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:16, archived)
# yeah
I'm creative sometimes, but these dry bits bother me
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:17, archived)
# Have you tried
a lanolin based creme?
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:20, archived)
# I'm not sure whether
that's creative enough...
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:21, archived)
# I think things shift around as time goes by.
I used to write fiction all the time. Haven't done so for years, mostly because I can't get past the first paragraph of a story without crumpling it up. But I'm more interested in visual art than I was back then. I'm not sure why...
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:20, archived)
# I can't write at all
I have good story ideas, but am not any good at telling them to others.

I like pictures though
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:24, archived)
# Try being in an English grad program.
My peers don't understand my silly drawings at all. :-)
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:27, archived)
# They said
the same thing to Roald Dahl...
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 5:35, archived)