Playing Creatively =)

Sometimes it is just lovely to think about what made you joyful. The most clear image I have of play when I was little was in an island. My family and relatives (including aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents) and I had gone for a long weekend to an island in Venezuela. We camped at the shore of the beach and everything was eat, swim and play. The one thing I really remember was that we went exploring the island and there was mud.My sisters and I insisted that we had to get a mud bath, but quickly after learned that we shouldn’t have done so. We felt really uncomfortable walking back to where the rest of the family were. We also decided to get on a pool float and swim as far as possible so that my parents would have to come get us (like we saw on Baywatch). I remember it felt both fun and daring going away from them, although we eventually had to return by ourselves. Now, I feel like that part of me that was playing in that beach getting away from all my relatives came true. Maybe not for a hot guy to come to my rescue but for a better purpose. To study. In my culture, it is not that common for the kids to leave their parents nest until marriage, but I went away from home to get an education. But my relationship with all of those relatives that were on that island with me has grown closer.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson on creativity. If people were not creative, there might have never been art, internet, facebook, etc. And since creativity is what drives people to act and come up with so many things, the future is always unpredictable. We can only speculate what it would be like, but we may not be right. Yet I had never thought that creativity can be as important as literacy. As Sir Robinson pointed out, math and science are the top topics in school. But since creativity is so important it our world, it should be encouraged more. I remember only two times when I had to be creative in school. The first was in an art class (and you are supposed to be creative there) when I had to do my own comic strip as well as a drawing. The other was in my language arts class where I had to create a Greek mythology character. To this day I still remember the name of the creator (Magma Boy) and what he looked like (his hair was made out of fire). But other than that, I don’t remember any other instance in which we really had to be creative during school. A question that comes up in my mind is: are people naturally creative or do they have to be encouraged to be creative?
I believe it is awesome that play helps the conceptual brain to develop. And it does have this positive effect in our brain as far as our emotions are. When we here in class that we are going to play a game, we get excited. When my boyfriend and I are bored we begin to play around and it makes everything so much better and fun. I never knew how important play can be. I am playful most of the time and sometimes people do not like it. But now I can tell them that I am able to be a good problem solver.

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