OVERCOMING THE THREE FEARS

In the Creative and Thinking and Pondering Worlds, there are three basic fears:
 
Fear of Creating
Fear of Thinking
Fear of Pondering
 
I think about this all the time—perhaps too much. But I do think about it.
 
Often, Thinkers, Ponderers and Creatives are looked upon with bemusement.
Society and anti-society types sometimes find us entertaining, frequently annoying, and all too often downright unwelcome.
 
We are like the Court Jesters of old–we’re kept around as long as we don’t disrupt or disturb too much. And we serve as diversions, diversions that aren’t really worth the effort to ban, since we’re almost always non-political.
 
Thinkers, Ponderers and Creatives mostly just want to examine things experientially, not scientifically. We go with the gut, with the common-sense alarm factor, with the distant-early-warning system that sorts bullshooting from empathy. Being artists, we are good at spotting fakes.
 
Once in a while, we come out of our creative spider holes and as troubadors wander about a bit, spreading and teaching what we know–until we become self-conscious and realize that we’re better at plying our art than at proselytizing.

 We just wait for you to discover us or ignore us. Either way, we are mostly content in our little worlds.

Take a peek, though. You might discover you are already one of us
 
(c) 2012 A.D. by Jim Reed
 http://jimreedbooks.com

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