Art Will Save Us

Art as salvation? We spend our rather limited lives seeking experiences.  We believe we are having experiences but what we are doing is seeking.  We seek out love and we seek its evil twin - hate.  We seek thrills and we run away to seek comfort.  We literally create sadness and angst so we might know them and then we frantically weave cloaks of joy - or what we hope will bring joy.  

Our bodies are wired to flood us with chemicals and hormones almost at will to meet our conscious or subconscious requests.  These chemicals and hormones respond to our thoughts.  Our feelings respond to our thoughts.  The external environments are not the actual triggers.  Our personal curated thoughts are the drivers.

Experiencing all of these conflicting feelings seems to be a necessary component of our existence in this life.  Actually experiencing every possible iteration would be a bit difficult or impossible for many because we also have our daily lives to experience.  Some experiences would be unsafe for us or others around.

Enter the world of art, music, and writing.  Here is your safe space where you may experience everything and anything you can possibly imagine and it will not harm you or anyone else.  Great art, great music, and great writings are not always the things we know as the masterpieces or the great masters’ works.  Anything that stirs your earthly little soul is a great master’s work.  

Paint your canvas, play your inner tune on anything that makes sounds that are pleasant to you.  Write the words you long to see and hear.  Create the world and all your desired experiences and then go back and repaint, replay, and rewrite it all any different way you want.  

The arts will give you all you desire.  This is why all arts are so necessary to our human experience.  We are souls seeking to grow through experiences, and souls grow even if you are not physically doing a thing.  Your imagination and your inner voice is sufficient to train your limitless soul.  Choose the arts.  Create your inner destiny.