Slippers

Creative thinking is an entity of self endurance - that is to say a marathon struggle against the incorrect and badly achieving calculator mind workings of everyone else in this world. Extremities apart, if your situation is that of exterior belief and yet centralising on even a pin point of degregation, it is impossblie to reach a fathom of the potential that you yourself have. For most people, this is almost always the case, except for that happy once-or-twice a lifetime experience where strangers in their multitudes look up to you with a certain respect.

Consider the following case study. A man lives his life working in an unexceptional job, happy with his social status and whilst probably not content with his lot, at least has no reason to slash his wrists every other day. One day as he walks to work, he see's the victim of a hit-and-run accident lying on the road - barely alive. Producing his mobile phone he dials for the emergency services, and runs over to the victim; making sure that they are in a position to stay alive for as long as the ambulence takes to turn up.

That man has saved a life. In addition to feeling jolly pleased with himself, he can expect to have a lot of people buying him drinks, possibly his name in the local paper, and be able to enjoy with genuine pride the after glow of the incident. A week of that and he'll be back to normal, but until the day he dies, he'll not forget that moment, that one instance of his life in which he was able to do something noteworthy.

Such incidents may not happen often, or of such a large scale. Indeed, maybe even directing a lost tourist to their desired destination would give the happiness, that someone, somewhere out there is grateful for your existance.

What, may you ask has this got to do with creative thinking? Allow me to explain. Creative thinkers are the world's most helpful people. Without them, the dexerity and survival of the human race would have long been in jepoardy. These days, with the internet discussions, shoddy journalism and heinously large amounts of bad literature anyone can be labelled as a creative thinker. That means anyone can be on a continuous high of vainly believeing that they are respected by thousands of unknowns. Instead of your few times in life of being immensly proud of yourself, there's lots and lots of individuals out there who don't know what it is to not be smug - individuals I might add, who are less than qualified to the task of a lifetime in cloudland.

Why, you will say, is that a bad thing? Is it not everyone's right to maintain an ideal of themselves? Indeed it is. But it is the creative thinkers who should be stealing the show. Think about it.
sli 8:25 PM