I think like an artist. Or better, I SEE like an artist. While most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and width, i'm bending the lines with my imagination and turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in conversations at with my friends i want to ask, "Do you see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but i've piqued everyone's curiosity with my own original and inventive ways of thinking.
I can, if I must, think in conventional ways. But left on My own, I'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact I 'm usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with.I learn from reading, talking, watching people and other fauna and flora, and simply sitting in the soft chair of My mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they could only use uneven numbers.I am out in front of conventional ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong, the good, the bad and the ugly.
(negative responses)
I drive through life faster than the speed limit, and when I hit speed bumps, and I hit a lot of them with My mind distracted from the straight line ahead my wheels leave the ground.
For people who like life at a safer speed, I move too fast and lose touch too often with the solid ground they prefer, hence their discomfort with me. As odd as i might find this, many people feel safe in the shelter of the world they already know. They like the familiar. They breathe easily and sleep deeply knowing with more certainty how the world works. So although they might enjoy my company and be curious about my latest notion of how to count backwards by threes, they can only take me in small doses. And they wish i'de quit trying to push the boundaries of their personal and social cosmos.
(positive responses)
Even those whom i make uncomfortable know, as just about everyone does, that i'm not a flake. i think well, and even my wildest fancies have their roots in the deep soil of sound ideas and tested beliefs. So even if some people don't want to drive at high speed with me, they will respect me for my courage as an innovative and unconventional thinker.I lend color and imagination to what would otherwise be the straight black and white lines of their work world and social environments.
A few more daring people of my circle might even learn from me to take a risk they would otherwise never consider. As comfortable as they are on solid ground, they may be curious about what it would be like to go faster than the speed limit, or paint the living room two shades of blue, or question ideas or beliefs they've fingered like sacred beads since they were children.
After all, they watch me do it, and i seem no worse for the risks i take. In fact, My eyes are wider and my breath quicker, and maybe they can find at least a bit of this for themselves. To be certain, they don't want their wheels to leave the ground, but maybe the next time they approach a speed bump they might just brace themselves and speed up just a little bit.
