I realize that there are many differing ideas and definitions concerning spirituality. I personally define spirituality as a general religious belief that shapes certain people’s lives. My personal feeling about spirituality is that everyone has the right to spirituality and their own personal opinion, but I believe people often become “vocally spiritual” or feel as if they need to share their religious spirit with other people which I find offensive. Spirituality involving religion is what I believe often draws people to thinking that they should or need to share a certain preconceived message with the world.
I believe that spirituality is different from religion but includes religion. Religion is a certain set of belief that people are taught in church, while I believe that spirituality takes what a person is taught and makes them personally applicable to a person’s life or experiences. This separation is what appeals to many religious people because although they share their religion with a large group, they have found a way to have a conceived personal connection with whichever deity they believe in.
I would define creativity as a person’s ability to be an original and authentic individual. By this I mean that this person is able to see what other people do or create and complete minor alterations that in some cases make the original action or object unrecognizable. I believe creativity is a representation of a person’s intelligence and abilities and that it takes a certain amount of effort for some people to be creative while creativity comes natural to certain “gifted” creative people.
I’m not sure if there is one specific source of creativity, a person could draw their creativity through exposure to creative objects such as art during their childhood or are driven to be creative through certain life events. There is speculation that creativity is genetic, I’m not sure if there is precisely a gene that predetermines a person’s ability to be creative but I would argue that a child’s exposure to art is a pretty good indicator of whether they will be considered creative or not. What I mean by a person being driven to be creative due to certain life events is that it is not uncommon for people to turn to creative means such as art and music after experiencing traumatic events. It would not be unusual for a person who was previously not classified as creative to become creative after a life-altering event.