A warm welcome to all my friends for taking out this little precious time to browse through my web page.

Its Eid in Dubai and it is one more Eid where I will once again sit and ponder. I have tried and analyzed this moment for the umpteen time to ascertain all the purposes and meanings assigned to us and our lives during this short and tumultuous tenure on Earth. And, once again, as previous,  I return to the same old conclusion,  blind as a bat, and quite oblivious to the what’s and the why’s.

Have you ever given thought to the real meaning of ‘chance’? Or to ‘choice’? If you look at the meanings in the dictionary, you will probably end up with two diverse explanations, but notwithstanding, this to me are words, so linked together, that it spells our destiny, I guess, more than anything else.

How, may you ask? Ok, I will endeavor my best to explain this, er . . . chancy phenomena. Well, we end up one way or another, all because of chance, and  as well, it then adds the other meaning of chance to it, because, since we get an opportunity, then the other ‘chance’ comes to the forefront, which is actually ‘choice’. Our being responsible for our lives and living, only makes sense, if we were given the opportunity to take one lead from another. Otherwise, why would we be accountable for all actions or our deeds.

Got you all confused, didn’t i? Never told you that my thought structure ever followed a straight line. It, sort of, follows a curved, reversible, sometimes irreversible path, in some vague, meaningful way (hee hee).

Ok, let’s move on.

My dear friend and I,  were trying to establish the true meaning to ‘creativity’.

Some say it means, sorting your right brain from the left, and ensuring ‘right brain’ taking precedence over all our logical and rationale thoughts.

Answers.com says: Creativity is the ability to think up and design new inventions, produce works of art, solve problems in new ways, or develop an idea based on an original, novel, or unconventional approach.

The Dictionary: Creativity is the ability to see something in a new way, to see and solve problems no one else may know exists, and to engage in mental and physical experiences that are new, unique, or different. Creativity is a critical aspect of a person's life, starting from inside the womb onward through adulthood.

However, without disagreeing with the above, I believe Creativity is:

One big, huge figment of our own very imagination. Creativity is all about the ‘image’ and not the ‘picture’. Although linked to the above explanations, Picture is what our left brain tells us to see and understand. If we are able to create an ‘Image’ of the ‘Picture’ with our right brain, then let our imagination wander;  accept the impossible as possible; the inevitable as evitable, then, this is what creativity is all about.

The only difference is ‘perspective’. We all actually see what everyone sees or has seen. Which means, with all the information around us that we have, both physically and mentally gathered, we have formed a picture in our minds; like our peers , friends now and in the past. Our ‘betters’ are people who dream and ask themselves the question, “why not?” instead of, “I see, this is how it works,” and that is how an ‘Image’ starts to get drawn inside our right brain. And, this is ‘Creativity’.

I have a terrible toothache today.

Only people who have or have had terrible toothaches can relate to my feeling at this moment. But, somehow I have always preferred pain over nausea. I have discovered that ‘pain’ is something that you can control, and at times, even benefit from.

Really?

I think I wrote about this before, that in this world, if you rise over the ‘physical’ side of things, then you will realize that everything we do or attempt to do,  comprises of only one thing.

That thing is ‘energy’. Both, positive and negative. We strive by taking in energy (or giving out) through the physical world, then feed it to our ‘spiritual’ side. However,  there are only three known ways where ‘energy’ can be exchanged. One through Meditation, (relaxation therapy, enjoyment and disappointments in life, etc. ), through Sex (yes, Physical sex is very important for us animals to exchange energy while exchanging joy with partners) and the third is through Pain.

Pain can be physical or emotional, traumatic pain. It is something that jolts us back into a real and highly  keyed up  world. You may have the best relationship; the best partner; but if it has a situation that is affecting you, and paining you, whatever the reason may be, and, although giving you physical pleasure and enjoyment, it is in reality draining you off well needed spiritual energy.

This has two effects, one that even when we have everything, we are quite miserable.

 The other, surprisingly, although it is so appalling, sometimes the negative energy through pain actually propels our creative side, and allows us to disassociate from the physical left brain, and we can be sad, but at the same time masters of our new destiny, which is an infinite path way to ingenuity and inventiveness.

Sounds strange, but than the world is very strange. Next week (or next time, whenever), for those of you who are interested, I shall write in more  details about the three aspects of spiritual energy 

Going back to pain, similarly, this disabled me, but at the same time it allowed me freedom to think better, and that is why I am online writing my blog, and hoping  to waste your time, those good people chancing upon my page this week.

Oh well, until next time then, and as per my usual message, I hope you are doing something crative and inventive with your time, wherever you are. The message from our ruler, HH Sheikh Mohammed is very vivid and clear, “Success of one, is success of others. Failure of one, is failure of all” This was the message through which he requested the citizens and all other nationalities in the UAE to raise money for the homeless.  ‘Dubai Cares’  was born, and in less than a month, over 75 million AED have been raised. Therefore understand what this means. Generosity from one’s heart, my friends, gives rise to  first category of t ‘energy’ exchanges in humanity. Giving, gives rise to a cycle of ‘energy exchanges’ and believe me, you will get a lot more in return, if not physically, definitely in ‘Spiritual’ terms.

Adios.