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Do You Ever Feel Like You Have Left Your Creativity Behind with Childhood?

October 31, 2009 01:56 PM EDT

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I was thinking about this recently. When I was a child, I was encouraged to do art until about age 15, then it was buckle down to serious studying. Do you ever feel the same way? I had to rediscover my artistic side as an adult. I wonder what I missed because of this?

I wrote a Squidoo article called How to Find Your Inner Artist as an Adult to chronicle how I came back to my art and my thought process behind that journey. It was a very long struggle with what made me happy and what was expected of me. I would love some feedback.

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Susan D. Oct 31, 2009, 1:57pm EDT

I've seen that lens, Paula, and I really like it!

Paula A. Oct 31, 2009, 2:10pm EDT

Thanks. It is my personal favorite. :)

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De (It takes a pillage to raze a village.) M. Oct 31, 2009, 2:34pm EDT

I felt the creativity squeeze after I left graphic design for programming. Now that I've been working in less visual career, I find it harder and harder to work on art projects.

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Kathy D. Oct 31, 2009, 2:38pm EDT

Interesting question - I believe those who remain uninhibited will never lose their creativity. The problem with growing up is that people get very absorbed in what other people think.

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Rhetta A. Oct 31, 2009, 5:39pm EDT

I lost my creativity as far as writing poetry and non-fiction for most of about 30 years. I briefly started writing poetry again in the 1990's and now I mostly write non-fiction, but I feel very creative again.

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