Creative People are Weird

Cre­ative peo­ple are com­pelled to express what is inside them. And it seems that inside such indi­vid­u­als, there is always a lot churn­ing around in the core of their being. That’s why many cre­ative peo­ple tend to be rest­less, pas­sion­ate, flighty. And the more they sup­press these expres­sions, the more rest­less they become. The mun­dane respon­si­bil­i­ties of every­day life tend to rob the cre­ative per­son of the quiet and soli­tude needed to nur­ture cre­ative expres­sion, which in turn cre­ates much frus­tra­tion, not only for them­selves but for oth­ers around them.

Cre­ative peo­ple gen­er­ally need a lot of per­sonal “space.” When oth­ers try to crowd them, cling to them, or put exces­sive emo­tional or mate­r­ial demands on them (whether these be real or per­ceived), their strongest incli­na­tion is to rebel…even bolt and run. They sim­ply MUST have the free­dom to be who they are, to explore, to med­i­tate, to rumi­nate, to exper­i­ment and to change…CONTINUALLY. Friends and fam­ily mem­bers who do not share the same cre­ative ten­den­cies often take offense at these pecu­liar needs of cre­ative peo­ple. They may feel that the cre­ative per­son does not like them, doesn’t love them or appre­ci­ate them when they are pushed away or avoided. They take such things per­son­ally and begin to expe­ri­ence feel­ings of rejec­tion, when truly it is not rejec­tion at all. It is sim­ply a mis­un­der­stand­ing between what 2 dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent peo­ple need from one another, and what each is equipped to give. This could explain why many cre­ative peo­ple seem to have much dif­fi­culty main­tain­ing inti­mate rela­tion­ships, par­tic­u­larly with oth­ers who do not share their own cre­ative tendencies.

Are YOU in rela­tion­ship with a cre­ative per­son? Your poor soul. Good luck with that. We can’t change. And if we could, you wouldn’t really want us to. Just pray for grace.

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