In our time of social media, creativity is presented as something nice and beautiful. The patterns, moods, colours, shapes. Everything looks “nice”.

Being something “nice” is what creativity looks like now. But it is far more than that.

If you are not creating something that looks “nice”, people might not come to buy your stuff; if your “not-so-nice” work tells a story that’s real and raw, some will come and listen.

But we are getting off topic. Because the end product of the whole creative process is not what I’m talking about, but the process itself.

Creativity is not “nice” — it’s vital and it’s healing. It’s the reason for many of that to live, to survive, to exist.

We share our work not to compete, but to connect. To ourselves, to each other, to the universe.

To surrender to your creative longing is the loneliest path but the only way to make that vital connection.

Stop trying to be “nice”. It comes only from and will go only towards comparison, anxiety, and disappointment.

Creativity creates connections.