Poetry

Poetry distills the essence of moments, I think.

When you're trying to capture exactly what happened, I think poetry is the best way to capture it. It might not make sense to other people but if you can capture the moment whether it has any beauty or whatever in it, then you've captured the moment in writing.

I think the most difficult part of it is that in order to do that, the poem must be revisited multiple times in different situations to ensure that the moment is properly captured. If it is able to evoke the same memory from these re-visitations, then it has been properly written.

And I think it should be beautifully written. I wonder if that's possible now. Has creativity run dry or have people just become lazy in trying to find different constructs to the same experiences everyone has gone through in life?

I like poetry. It's simple yet so deep.

Y'know what I like about being in school?

It brings out the thoughtfulness in me. The part of my brain that thinks interesting thoughts. I think that's why I want to be an academic. The stimulation of thought. It makes me more interesting. It makes my thoughts more interesting to me. I wonder if I become more interesting to others because of it. I hope so.

[edit] Oct. 3. 2012

Oh how quickly things change with midterms! I like how my attitude did a 180 when things started getting busy.

On a different note, with the whole creativity thing, I realized part of what it is, is resonances of the modern era (Hemingway among others). They simplified writing and then there were (still are, I think?) artistic movements with ideas like "form follows function" that I think really seeped into the writing. I mean there are obviously other factors that play into what writing and art has become today, but perhaps it is for this reason that we don't seek beauty solely for aesthetic purposes.  How functional is it, how accessible to the public, how much is it worth? All these things are what writers, artists and musicians take into account when doing any creative work, is it not? One thing with artists of any kind is the idea that if it cannot be used in any way, if you cannot turn your art into a viable source of income, it is useless. I feel very much this way when I practice any of the instruments I have a superficial interest in. When I draw. I know that my music and my art will never be good enough to be publicized. Ever. So does that make my hobbies useless? Is it wrong to want to pursue these things despite their seemingly lack in worth? I think that there are many people who do exactly that (pursue hobbies for the heck of it, knowing it'll never become their day job), I just feel unproductive doing it. I guess I have a hard time justifying such "unproductive" things.