Honestly, I’ve really learned to enjoy this time away from the office and having the opportunity to think & be creative again. This is something I have definitely lost in my time whilst working and finishing university. I got so caught up with designing for others, I forgot to design for myself, plan for my future and even delve into the past and channel my first love again, ART.
Thankfully I have been allowed to this and using the opportunity of being made furlough for three kickstart a whole new passion in me, that I haven’t seen in 1 and 1/2 years since finishing masters. Is it possible to ‘creatively depressed’?
I honestly feel like this was me, I worked so hard in my masters, by the time I was done it was that push again to get a job. The life’s you became routine and I didn’t look to do the things I said I would do in my masters.
Fortunately, the passions come back to me, drawing isn’t just creating art for me, it’s been a real therapy tool in this time of uncertainty. It has indeed made me get my ‘mojo’ back for sure! Because I was starting to doubt myself as a creative, having the project I was on halted and not know knowing what to do with this free time. That’s quite insane to be honest, because as a child, drawing was second nature to me. I was encouraged and support by my mum & you would find me most days if not at the park, scribbling on the dining room table. I was even lucky enough to get paid to do it at times, with my cousin paying £5 to do her art piece due in the next day.
I have been lucky and I hope those reading this too can be. Lucky in the sense, that I have been given time, talent and platform to do anything I want to do. This quarantine and Covid-19 pandemic has reminded me of the countless opportunities we are given in this life & I am not going to see it go to waste.
Love,
Your Writer,
Nat
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