WE CAN PAINT THE SKY, NOT CREATE IT

 



“The only unique contribution that we will ever make

in this world will be born out of our creativity.”

Brene Brown

 

A famous motivational guru had made this statement: ‘Winners don’t do different things; they do things differently.’

Interestingly, the best-selling author and motivational guru had the sharpest and the quickest business-acumen to copyright this line. So, it’s ‘registered’ under the relevant Intellectual Property Act… Now, you and I can’t claim it as ours… It is his – the great guru’s!

Sometimes, I find it so silly when someone claims, that a line like the one mentioned – which is a universal and age-old truth – as his/her property. Yes, I agree and marvel at his/her business acumen… to make a fortune out of common wisdom…

Is that creativity?

I think, it is.

And, if it is, so be it.

Many of us have come across this dialogue between a honeybee and a concerned creature:

Once, a concerned creature asks a honeybee: “My friend, you take so much effort and painstakingly build your honeycomb. Then, a greedy man comes along, destroys what you have built and steals away all the honey… Don’t you feel sad, angry or dismayed? What makes you build it all over again?”

“Man can only steal all the honey I make, my dear friend,” replies the honeybee, “but, he can’t steal my art of honey-making.”

With due respect to every ‘genius’ in this world – down through the ages – all that I want to say is this: “Everything you and I create under the Sun is just a ‘theft’ of what God had already created – yes, so painstakingly, so brilliantly. You and I can only steal the honey of His great honeycomb… To go around, thumping our chests, is silly…

The God must be laughing!






When His disciples approached Jesus and said, “Master, teach us a simple prayer to say every day, He, instantaneously, taught them the prayer, which, ever since, has been on the lips of every Christian and even many non-Christians… It’s known as ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, or ‘Our Father’… Look at the genius of Sir Cliff Richard:




 

While we are awestruck by every genius under the God’s sky, we tend to miss out on the sky itself, and the Great Genius lying low behind the sky…

Is He laughing?

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

Pic’s: pixabay

Video: Cliff Richard

 

 

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