When You Need Creative Soulmates
by Amanda on May 6, 2010
Do you ever feel that sometimes your friends don’t understand your creative passions? That the creative being inside of you is often quietly hidden from your real world? Sometimes the people that we have grown up with and shared years of friendship and relationships with are a world a way from our creative addictions. I find this hard to deal with at times and often I will hide my true passions from those I am closest to.
Most of my close family and friends do not read Mocking Bird and it’s simply because I haven’t told them about it. I’ve come a long way with blogging over the years and I almost feel like it’s too late to start sharing the little pocket of the world that I have created here.
I do however have lots of friends that I can share my creative life with but many of them live on different continents and are known to me by way of a computer screen. I love that I can chat away about photography and a creative rich life with the amazing people I’ve met through the internets, but often I wish that my close friends, whom I love dearly, understood this thing I do.
I’ve just scored a book deal and I am embarrassed to even mention it to family and friends. That’s not normal, right?!
Do you have many creative arty friends? Maybe I was supposed to meet them at university but never did. I’d take an art class but I couldn’t paint to save my life!
Thankfully I’m meeting up with one of my awesome photographer friends very soon and she is introducing me to one gorgeous spirited creative lady whom I can’t wait to meet.
Who are your creative soul mates?
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YES – I ventured onto your site a few days after you wrote this – I am and have been so overwhelmed by this thought that I can not contain it into words for a proper response – creative soulmates – YES!
(hope your grandfather is better!) xoxo R
Creative soulmates are essential! When we grow, we sometimes find the paths of our loved ones to go different routes than ours, which is OK–it keeps things interesting actually. However, I’ve found that my true friends will support my creative endeavors and new ideas even if they don’t quite get it (for themselves). They just know that it is right for me and love me all the same. I hope your loved ones can do the same for you! Congrats on your book deal, that is fantastic :)
xo, trish