Finding the Beauty in the Mundane

The photo below is not a superimposed picture of an alien galaxy over a geometry teacher’s chalkboard…

It is not a psychedelic hurricane headed toward a Grateful Dead show.

It’s simply a snapshot I took with my iPhone as I walked across a parking lot this morning on my way to the Cafe.

It’s a drop of car engine oil, or gasoline, on wet pavement…

Is anything ugly, really?

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“The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost

Pain and art. A legendary combination. Emotional pain has fueled the creation of great art since…well…forever, right?

Is pain necessary to create great art? Of course not.

But when pain DOES come…when you feel it…when you experience sadness, anger or loneliness, as a creative person you have an incredible opportunity. You can turn that pain into art.

This is a gift.

I know I’m not revealing a big secret here. It’s just a reminder.

Amazing love songs are written by miserable, broken-hearted people.

The world’s greatest novels are often filled with tragedy.

Express your pain through your art, through your medium, whatever that is.

Pick up that guitar and play what you feel…

Open your laptop and write exactly what’s on your mind without censoring yourself…

BE sad. BE angry. Don’t resist it.

But don’t just sit there…

Use it.

Channel that pain into your art.

Because “the best way out is always through”.

Because when you write that sad song, or paint that angry painting, something really cool happens:

You end up feeling a hell of a lot better!

Do you use your pain to create? Leave a comment!