My Creative Mind

Journal Prompt #3: Describe your creative mind. Think about what happens when your mind is creating something—a thought, a move, a drawing, an equation. What’s going on?

As I walk out of my parent’s apartment entering the elevator I think of songs I want to hear whilst my journey to school. I open the back door beginning the long path of the light gray pavement. I walk towards the bus stop and I suddenly see the top of the bus, notifying my nerves to run to the bus before I miss it. I finally get on the bus. As always the bus is always jammed pack with men in suits, dolled up students, elderly asians, and toddlers with their school backpacks. As I am waiting for the arrival of my bus stop, I stare out the window looking at the pale faces waiting for their rides in the bus along with the rushed taxi cars on the crowded streets. Whilst I stare through the window, I get pushed around by tall, short, young, and old people. Making me feel in some sort of angry, annoyed, but calm and patient person in the inside. Staring outside the window I start to think of crazy situations that can occur during a bus ride to school. Situations and scenes like, chaotic altercation between the people behind me or car crashes or coffee spills or even drug transactions along the dark alleys.

After I start to think to myself that this is reality anything can happen. I start to think of personal situations leading to questions I have for the future to come. Questions like “is anyone going to care if I die right now right here on the streets?” “Is anything going to change or is it just going to ‘continue on’?” or “is anyone even going to my funeral, like my friends, or family or teachers?” Although these questions seem over the top, many people like me do think what will happen when your time comes, everyone is afraid of death.

In addition to the dark side of my creative mind, we move on to the brighter path of my imagination. Things like having a perfect prom in a puffy cinderella dress holding hands with a handsome prince charming or maybe just a simple but perfect prom where all of my bestest friends dressed in their beautiful gowns and perfect makeup on all going to prom together in a limo and later on having to go to the beach watching the sunrise.

Although I do get many of my inspirations from life situations, my imaginations are also triggered by many of the books, plays, television shows, and movies I watch and read. I’ve been recently been inspired by the wonderful and glorious William Shakespeare, his plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet have inspired me the most so far. It’s so amazing how much Shakespeare can influence my little but outrageous mind. Many of my favorite shows such as Eye Candy, Walking Dead, and Pretty Little Liars all inspired to think out of the box and most of my dark ideas come from thrilling TV shows, which is a little of a surprise since all the shows I watch are mysterious and maybe a bit gruesome at some points.

In conclusion, writing my imaginations down on paper possibly into a play helped me realize all my imaginations are just wild as a horse galloping around a field dozens of times. They also jump from one image to another. The number of pieces of hair on a wild hairy beast can represent the amount of ideas and fiction stories played in my head.