The bits of creativity.

Creativity can be weird and off-putting to others, but it should never be tossed aside.

My imagination has been wild ever since I was a child. Daydreams would become reality in the blink of an eye. Sometimes they would turn to nightmares as well. Regardless of the emotion, I enjoy exploring what could be; more so than what is. Our status quo of the world is fueled by fear and incentives. Fear of standing out and incentives for fitting in. The Japanese have a proverb that states, "The nail that sticks out gets hammered." John F Kennedy once said, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth." Haruki Murakami wrote in "Pinball, 1973," "Each of us had, to a greater or lesser degree, resolved to live according to his or her own system. If another person’s way of thinking was too different from mine, it made me mad; too close, and I got sad. That’s all there was to it."

Society has stripped the masses of creativity. It's only in entertainment do we truly get a glimpse of the philosophies of men and women that would go on to change the world; only to be heard postmortem. I see a movement within the generations growing young and old. A movement that encourages creativity in one's self and a retroactive desire to return to it; respectively. Let this encourage you to follow the dopamine that creativity produces. Let The Bits warm your soul.