A brighter imagination
Practically two and a half years ago, I started working in advertising. I remember my first creative review because I left the meeting thinking that every TV script presented was crap. It wasn’t funny. Everyone else seemed to think so, though.
Over time, things have gotten funnier. Rough descriptions of an event or an idea develop more easily in my mind. And it’s more fun to have sparks flying out all over the place in my brain. Now that I look back on it, I think my problem was that my imagination had been smothered during 20 some odd years of schooling. William Crossman, author and scholar, believes that traditional teaching methods squelch our creativity by limiting acceptable expression to reading, writing, and speaking. Working in a creative industry helped me reconnect with other forms of stimulation. I spend my days watching video, reading, finding the best way to represent my ideas–in a picture, graphic, or agonizingly selected set or words. Life is more fun these days, more vibrant and more exciting.
