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A masterpiece of doodles
While idling this morning with the next bunch of social shares, my eyes caught up a lovely
video of a mum, shaping and colouring the fascinating doodles of her daughter, thus
turning them into a great picture. That reminded me of how my daughter started her art
classes when she was only two-years-old. All of her pictures ended up as masterpieces,
neglecting the fact that they were imprinted all over her clothes and the room as well.
Nonetheless, she was happy and proud, since that was the actual goal of the exercise.
This sweet recollection, however, streamlined my thoughts on how we start doodling our
dreams and ideas in our childhood, without any expectations of what they are going to look
like, to eventually transform them into an upright forward vector in our adulthood,
keeping straight line and schedules. Then, naturally, and with a certain dose of bitterness,
comes the moment of awareness and enlightenment, and we gladly share with our friends
the diagram “what I expected my life to be and what it turned out to be.”
The second part of the diagram reflects the same old doodles from our first pictures in
life, with the slightest difference that we have already invested too much time and efforts
to make them look like an upright forward vector. While trying to keep the straight line,
having all our goals set up in a perfect plan, we somehow neglect the moment to
improvise, to accept the things as they are and to enjoy what we are doing. Therefore,
each scratch or shape aside from the initial idea may leave an imprint of negative
emotions on us.
Of course, there’s nothing bad to have high dreams and long term goals, as they are the
fuel to make us go further in our personal development. The disappointment usually comes
from our efforts and expectations to give those dreams and goals a precise shape, just as
we think we would like to have them, and to fix their achievement in a strict plan. Thus
we deprive ourselves from the possibility to see other alternatives which could be much
better than our initial idea, or turning the occurred defects into glamorous effects.
Doodling our dreams and goals may not seem as a serious approach from the perspectives
of an adult, though that’s what we always get a result. However, it gives us the flexibility
to shape and reshape them, and to be filled with the exact emotional colour that we would
like to have. Even if you can’t see or define a given shape at a certain moment, just keep
on doodling, and at a later stage it will become meaningful. Consequently, the picture of
your life will look like a masterpiece of colourful doodles and you will be happy and proud.