We are all scared

I don't like writing about physically writing, but I thought maybe I could get away with it once-

In class this past week when were were talking about writing being a performance I thought of this video by Hank Green on the Vlog Brothers channel;

"creating is not terrifying, but sharing the creation, or even the thought of sharing the creation is"

 I think about this a lot, and so did the author of The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger. I love writing and it's exciting getting a piece to where it's ready to be shared with others, but it's also pretty scary. I obsess over word choice and order when writing. I share my drawings and paintings more than the tings I write. Last spring I had a painting in the Lewis art show and I purposely didn't show it to my parents before. I wanted their real reaction to the piece, but as the show got closer, I did find myself getting pretty anxious about how they would react.

"…then you have the creation that matters most to all of us, and that is the scariest and most dangerous and most intimate and most beautiful creation that everyone gets to make- and you only get to  make one of them- and that's the self"

 I love this and have never really thought of the self concept this way. WE are a creation and a compilation of all the things we do and say and feel. I knew this- but never thought about it in a creative-art type of way. The older I get the more I believe in the power and beauty of choice. It's kinda like choosing what color paint to put on a canvas; who are my friends and how am I going to let them influence me, what types of media am I going to spend my time on and what do I spend time thinking about in my free time? I hope this new blog will document some of these things and become an accurate representation of myself, or as I view me.

"when you talk to a new person, you are making you inside of them" 

 Because (at the time of the post) we are currently in the second week of school, we are doing this on a daily basis! As I am meeting people and telling them about myself, what I like and how I spend my time, and I am learning all these things about them, I am participating in the creative process and letting people in on mine.

Kayla Audrey- Week 1