I also love metaphors and writing and connections and making things work when they shouldn't and run-on sentences can be fun sometimes, too. It all depends on where the inspiration stems from and how we choose to use it.
I just read through a segment of "What to Listen for in the World" by Bruce Adolphe. He touched upon inspiration, the flow of ideas and how certain things, like chocolate, can find their way into everyday inspiration.
"Music can be like chocolate because chocolate can be like music. Poetry is commutative. Knowing this, we can begin to understand the various mysteries by relating them to each other."
The sort of idea that everything is interconnected and intertwines in an almost poetic way. Even when we least expect it.
This idea of creativity derived from connectivity is not something I had always thought of throughout my life, and maybe now I will start thinking about it as such. Creativity, after some thought, may just be several ideas floating around in a space. It's up to the creator's imagination to process this information — this swarm of ideas — and organize them into something beautiful.
That is nothing short of a challenge.
Upon this idea of connectivity, I'm reminded of one of my favorite shows, "Avatar: the Last Airbender." During one episode of this show, the three main characters find themselves lost in a maze, separated, far from home, stuck in a swamp. They find themselves detached from society and from their relationships fairly easily, until someone comes to their rescue.
Someone to tell them that home is closer than they had originally thought. That every relationship is connected. That all of their thoughts connect to another. That every bit of the swamp they found themselves in is connected to one central tree: one overarching idea.
And that connectedness truly boggled my mind.
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