silveradept | Five Things I'm proud of

The last in this particular prompt of five - “Write five things about you that you’re proud of, without comparisons or qualifications.” The things that you’re proud of, not of what you think other people will be proud of you for. No ifs or buts.

This is the last one that I came up with for this list - and there’s elegance in its simplicity, and beauty in its expression.

#5 - I am a creative being.

That’s it. But in that, there’s a lot packed. There’s writing, there’s art, there’s the ability to pick up an idea and run with it to lots of places, some of which may actually be achievable. There’s grandiose schemes, ideas for fanfiction, for Subreality’s storyscape, bringing outside philosophies to bear on a world, checking someone else’s world for consistency and trying to make it bigger, fuller, and more interesting.

It combines well with the brains when it’s firing on all cylinders. It makes worlds, characters, ideas, and then files them away. It works out in a lot of ways. It can provide that one thing that someone needed to get going on their own creative project, even if nothing that was said actually gets put into the final project. I’ve said that it might be my lot in life to be an inspiration to others. If that’s really true, then I’ve got creativity and brains, and I should be proud of both of those, regardless as to whether they actually end up creating a “magnum opus” for me. It’ll help with programming when I get to my profession. It’ll help in other places, too, like when trying to come up with the most creatively lame insults possible. Or when I actually want to try and cut someone to ribbons with a tongue-lashing.

Creativity is something that flows in all our veins. It just needs to find the right place to be let out and put to use. Sometimes that means being whacked with a difficult-to-write prompt about yourself. Other times, the Trout of Truth. Either way, finding the right creative outlet makes your life better.

So, those are my five proud things - if you want, take on the prompt for yourself. Write five things about yourself that you’re proud of, with no qualifications or comparisons. Forget what everyone else thinks and write what you’re proud of. It shouldn’t be too hard, right? Remind me again in a month, or six months, or something, to do this again. It’ll force me to keep a positive look on my life.

And now, time to open up the floodgates. Here’s the continuing part of this meme - what did I miss? Tell me something that I should have written in this prompt and didn’t. Or tell me something that you’re proud of me for that I didn’t write into the prompt. I’ll take that and write an entry like this about it. I promise. If it takes me the rest of my life, dutifully writing something that I’m proud of every day from here to the day I die, well, there are worse ways of spending your time.