Accepting The Limitations Of Creativity
Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. (388, The Message Bible) About a month ago, I heard someone who was in a position of power make the statement in front of a group of people that everyone can get their needs met if they are creative enough. I have been thinking about that statement ever since and I have got to say that it is a bunch of privileged, ableist bullshit. I learned way back in elementary school that needs are the things that keep you alive - you need them to survive. The fact of the matter is that there will come a day for every single person when they will not be able to use creative means to stop their own death. We all know that death is as certain as taxes...or do we? Perhaps for some it is easy to deny that death will ever really happen to them but I seem to have escaped that ability. I think about death a lot and I do not