Let me begin
Preface
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life ? - Mary Oliver
This quote became the launch pad of my dream to be heard and spoken about my creation. I had spent too many years working alongside a mediocre environment, because of the haunting ambiguity of being unable to sell my original thinking to make a few or enough bucks to survive. It was crazy to choose a job. But there is no choice for a person who belongs to the middle income category, who has to continuously maintain his income to beat inflation, and the fear of being thrown out of the regular stream of life. I had to wait for more than thirty five years to get released from a "system" which indulged in too much protection, but too little freedom. It has put me down when I was reverberating with performance. When the corporates were crushing its employees through its weapon "favouritism" and "bias", I woke up, and wanted to be free.
For everyone, life does a turn around, for me after several years of dormancy I mustered my energy towards a new path, drifting away from the beaten track, to prove to myself I am no ordinary stuff. I took a strong decision to unleash my creative instinct through this book.What really inspires and stimulates oneself is worthy of being converted to a passion and a goal in life. Hence one of my goals is to write a book on Creative Instinct.My creative instinct became my passion. I enjoyed thinking creatively, drew inspiration from people and incidents around me. My creative instinct was appreciation, creation and expression of art which encompassed drawing, painting, writing and evolving ideas. I had always thought about the beauty of ideas floating in my mind. My primary inclination was towards art. I wanted to draw whatever I enjoy seeing. Human faces and God's creations from flora to fauna fell for my graphite pencil. I continued to pursue this Instinct. I could think and draw geometrical shapes very easily in three dimensional form. In my later years I fell in love with English language and devoted to writing as much as did for art. I reached my peak in my creative endeavors during my pursuit towards excellence. I escaped from the world of disillusionment which was a torturing me for thirty years of employment. Those years I lost the freedom to express my instincts of creativity. But I am, what I am now. My continuous pursuit is to unravel the creative instinct within me and enjoy every moment of sharing it with the world outside.
Creative instinct is the inner urge to do particular activity to make a distinct difference. It bursts out without my knowledge. My inner voice of "creativity" grew louder and louder during the my life's journey. I discovered that this instinct is no longer mine, but should be definitely shared and enjoyed. Finally I could not but decided to blow out my thoughts and hopefully this book will fulfill my desire and provide clue to the readers to explore their own creative instinct.I had been continuously exploring my creative instincts, much to my amazement frequently landed on a happy note. Sometimes even my thinking paralysed me and took me to very strange destination.I began this book with the intention of making people enjoy the significance of creative instinct and to unleash without any inhibitions.If ever I wanted to attain fulfilment, I thought there is no other better time than now. Hence I had a self talk, "write your own book". All it took was my inner desire to promote this unique thinking called creative instinct which is being under utilised by many people. This passion runs in my blood, and the impact it makes seems to ruin my other scope for thinking. Hence I became obsessed with prolonged thinking about creative instinct and finally my strong desire overtook my passivity. Now I am expressing it. In the beginning my sensory organs always had a hunger for art as well as thinking differently at every opportunity in my life. made me choose this path with joy. When I see something I see with my third eye, I go on top of the creation and thinking about making changes. Monotony and disorderliness, upsets me. Normal notion carried widely is that creative people love to be disorderly, insane, eccentric and so on. It is a false statement.After winning the 1958 World Cup the great Pele said "It was our differences that made us beautiful". These words took me to greater heights of my thinking. Setting aside all fears of ambiguity in my presenting my thoughts, the courage to express finally ran all over me and I felt like butterflies hovering over Tulips. Every time I think about making a difference, it warms my soul, the music, the art, even the cutting of vegetables....all activities around us, the universe inspires me, as if offering itself to make a change or create something new. I am neither a musician nor a scientist to be a Bach or an Einstein to invent or to create, but I believe that everyone hhas a grain of creativity in him, unrealised and unattended. It is dormant, waiting to be opened and
unleashed.
So be with me to enjoy this book.
