Creativity requires Experimenting

One year ago:

The only way I have learned anything in this life is by making mistakes, small ones and really big ones. Huge ones too. And a lot of small errors leading to bigger problems, you know. We call them mistakes but it would be more wise to call it Experimenting. Try by Error. It was so much fun when I was a kid I was programming in Basic computer language, writing lines for hours and hours. By the time I was finished it really begun. The program never worked. So I had to find the lines with the mistakes.....

My life is the same. I write and write, program line after program line, now and then I type the command RUN (enter) to see if the program spontaneous will run without problems, well it never does, I make mistakes all the time and that is OK. It is my creativity that needs experimenting with this life. I need to be in touch with a stream of emotions flowing through me and I have to be prepared to create without demanding it to be perfect or beautiful. Being creative allows me to make mistakes without calling it mistakes but a simple necessary process of creating. Trial by Error. All these mistakes in my life have led to only a few successes. Very sweet ones. The reason for these successes where these mistakes I made before. They belong to each other. I have known some huge disappointments in my life. I am happy about them now because I know they can function as the basis of future Grand Victories in my personal life....yet to come. Looking back on my fundament I smile because I know the concrete is filled with iron and is of the rarest best known quality. My faults are quality mistakes :)
 
My biggest achievement until know has been my ability to learn from my errors and eventually become stronger through them.

I am prepared to make "mistakes" and learn from them all the time.



Leendert van Velsen

  RUN---->
<ENTER>
  SYNTAX ERROR IN LINE 13
  please wait.......
  ok?