How often do we encourage creativity to flow, develop and flower as a big part of our lives both professional and personal? How often do we make time to nurture or indulge in creative processes? Most people talk about that one-day when they will make time to take up that course in pottery or get back to their singular talent of painting or singing. We shy away from learning, especially the sort that does not lead to an academic end or fulfills a professional goal or objective.

Most people treat education as a phase of life that falls away into the past and reminds one mostly of pleasant memories of growing up, friendships and change. No one thinks of revisiting this phase in the role of a student again, especially as an adult. Somewhere the urge to fly and indulge in things that make us wonder, things that fill our imagination with countless possibilities and make us explore our curiosity have disappeared. The clutter of information all around, available at the click of a button has turned the spirit of adventure to mundane clicking.

Can one understand the challenges that stop people from exploring and indulging in creative learning in later lives?

How should one define creative learning? Why would anyone want to indulge int it?

Trying to be on a break...

I have been on the move so long. For the past three months literally I have been living out of a suitcase. Somehow all my vacations get crammed up with activities. The weekend breaks to Bhopal are no different. But its monday morning here and Abhi is at work and I suddenly have time on my hands and I don't know what is the next best thing for me.

This page is soft, white and inviting and I am free. Free to do as I please. Countless chores come to my mind seeking attendence. But I don't want to bother with them. I'd much rather pick those up that have been on my to do list since ages and have nothing to do with my daily routine, my work life. I'd love to pick up soem thing interesting and new, something just for the sake of indulging.

I don't want to waste a single minute sorting through the options I just want to indulge, go ahead relax, sit, sleep, write, cook( I wish I could but Abhi's one room set offers no kitchen!) and here I am with my feet up wanting to write but knock, knock...there are no thoughts pounding at the doorstep aching to be written down.

So I guess I should simply wait and do nothing for the time being!!!
What is it that people do when they have a break?