Get In Touch With Your Inner Three Year Old
Three year olds know exactly how to embrace their inner creativity
Hello and welcome, my lovely creatives! I hope you had a lovely end of July and beginning of August!
I hope it’s a gorgeous sunny day where you are. I’m at the laundromat with my laptop and facing the beautiful blue sky outside with lovely puffy white clouds. It’s loverly.
For some reason, my phone YouTube has decided that I’m a Swifty and I’m not even mad about it. Whenever what I was watching or listening to ends, it starts up with Taylor Swift. I’ve never really been into her music but since my phone is adamant, I’m going with it.
This week’s letter is about embracing our inner creative three year old. They’re the ones who just did their own thing, not caring who was watching. Be a little weird. It’s ok. Make your inner three year old proud.
Dear Lovely Creative Person,
For some reason, society gives kids carte blanche to be as creative as they want to be.
When you're three, you can dance around like an idiot for no apparent reason and everyone thinks it's adorable.
Meanwhile, if an adult dances outside any sort of place deemed "normal" for dancing, they're given side-eye for days.
Hot tip: if you want to clear space around yourself, dance like an idiot and most people will give you a wide berth!
But once you hit adulthood, you're supposed to always be adulting not creating or having fun, with the exception of the few who are working in creative fields.
How unfair is that?
We all should have the opportunity to have fun and be creative. Maybe not all the time, but at least sometimes.
Suppressing our natural desires to dance or do whatever creative thing we'd like to be doing all the time just isn't good for us. I know if I don't write for a good chunk of time, my dreams go completely haywire.
The creative energy has to come out, one way or the other. So why not have it come out in a way we enjoy?
There are many reasons to embrace our inner three year old. And finding our creative voice is one of them.
If you're worried about what people are going to think about you for writing that poem, or carving that piece of soap into a frog, then keep it to yourself. Nobody has to know what fun little thing you've just created.
But you'll know.
You'll be tapping into the creative energy of your inner three year old. And they'll smile the big smiles for it.
Much love and hugs to your creative inner three year old,
t :)
Inspiration Of The Week
This week, a friend messaged me saying she thought I’d identify with Nobel Prize Barbie. I thought it was hilarious. Pretty sure they don’t give those out to people who write romcoms. But I appreciated the thought.
I also saw this fun clip that Malala Yousafzai posted:
Which Barbie are you?
What inspired you this week?
Creative Prompt For The Week
This section is a weekly prompt to nudge you to do something creative this weekend. Sometimes we want to do something but just don't know what to create so we need a starting point. I'm going to help the creatively challenged by providing a word, phrase, or some other starting point where you can focus and create something. If you'd like to share it with me, please do, but there's no pressure. I'm here to inspire, not judge or tell you how or what to do.
Your prompt for this week, should it inspire you, is:
PIGEON
As I sit here at the laundromat very close to the door, I keep watching the pigeons outside. They’re dive-bombing nothing discernable. But that doesn’t stop me from thinking they’re going to swoop inside as people are coming and going.
I can only imagine the chaos they would cause inside.
Reminds me of the meme story which I can’t find at the moment about the guy who keeps feeding pigeons, or maybe gulls, at a train station. He teases them a bit, only doling out a bit of fries at a time. A train pulls into the station and just before the door is about to close, he throws the container of fries in through the doors. Absolute chaos ensues. It’s horrible to think about experiencing, but that doesn’t stop me from picturing it with no fries involved, just laundry.
Found it! Here’s the meme I was thinking about which is about gulls:
Some pigeon-inspired ideas how to use this prompt: coo a song instead of sing words, dance like a pigeon, or maybe you can sketch a sneaky pigeon up to shenanigans.
Here’s some pigeon dance inspo:
I hope you have a fabulous week of inner child inspiration.
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