Why Being Creative is Essential in Today's World (Short Essay)

 

“It is creativity which gets you through opportunities which the stars have kept for thee.”

     

 

As a child, I grew up with a mindset that creative people were the ones who were good at drawing. Apparently the ones around me possessed the same mindset, and by me having a good hand at drawing meant I was ‘creative’. Many a times I regretted it, for everyone expected my assignments to be full of colorful pictures and my projects to be excellently illustrated. The reality was quite different, where my drawings were blatantly visible in the corners of my English textbook, which I had found to be an effective way to keep from sleeping in class. 

Being creative in today’s world means finding simple yet effective solutions for seemingly complex problems. Let’s take a common classroom example- I always found History difficult, for it had a lot of things to memorize. But when I accidently hummed a song while reading the text, I could fit the words in the rhythm and I still remember them today. Now, everyone in my class has to learn the same things in some way, but the time taken by each varies, and here comes the efficiency into play.  

Every walk of life demands creativity- from students to business strategies to rocket science. This intellectual property is key to make things possible in limited resources. When scientists at ISRO launched the entire Mars Orbiter Mission in less than half of amount of resources than a similar mission of NASA, they used their creativity for resource and capital efficiency. If the pressure hadn’t been on them, they might have required the same million dollar budget.

In the end I would like to say that everyone has creativity. And we should be proud of it, like young kids happily wanting to show off their scribbling to everyone around them. You ask me why? I don’t know why you still have this question.

 

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