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Choose to Create Today. It’s Better than Consuming. And Far More Human.

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Creation expresses what is most distinctively human in us.​



Claude Monet, Le bassin aux nymphéas, 1919.


We live in a world of consumers.
Indeed, consumption is often seen as a virtue.

If you consume, you help the economy (and your country). If you consume, you help your family (with the things they need). If you consume, you help yourself (by making life more pleasant or easier or productive).

Two Kinds of Consumption: Necessary and Optional

Of course, we do need to be consumers. Part of what it means to be human is to be dependent on the world around us. We need food. We need clothing. We need shelter.
But consumption also extends to things that we do not necessarily need: the latest phone, the most recent streaming service, the monthly subscription to a music service…
Call these two sorts of acquisition (1) necessary consumption and (2) optional consumption.

The Measure of Optional Consumption: Relationships

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O snap I have a photo of the closest internal cell looks like.
It's beautiful.

I hope it's on topic I found the art work, posted below.
 
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I hope this is related. ???

I wanted to learn to create by doing creative hobbies- such as crocheting or knitting- but found them too difficult.

I don't know how else to be creative.

I hope someone enlightens me.
 
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I hope this is related. ???

I wanted to learn to create by doing creative hobbies- such as crocheting or knitting- but found them too difficult.

I don't know how else to be creative.

I hope someone enlightens me.
Whatever makes you happy.
I paint and draw [if I have time]

Just sit down and either watch the TikTok or YouTube artists who teach or just pull out a picture and see the details and see if you can draw it.

I learned art by drawing everywhere as a child. It did not - repeat did not go over well with my parents.
 
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