This is Our Story

What’s Your Story?

Everybody’s got one…how will you tell yours?

Art is everywhere—especially in you. A simple melody, a three-word phrase, a wordless stroke of a paintbrush are all flashes of art in our world. They make up everything around us, though crafted only by those few famous creators of our time. Every song, every poem, every painting is left to the professionals. But now, it is your time.

You, the everyman. Art is everywhere—especially in you.

I am not a man of legend. My brain is not a brilliant palace of creativity, but I do have a story. I will tell my story. I could tell it through dance. I could tell it through song. I could tell it through novels, paintings, poems, sketches, photography, graphic design, music of any instrument, lyrics, scripts, film, calligraphy, acting, hair design, makeup design, cooking, sculpting, sewing, knitting, short stories—the list goes on and on, because the list only stops when you decide you cannot create any more. But you can make art. After all, art is everywhere—especially in you.

But what exactly is “art?”

Art, nowadays is an off-putting term. We only go to see art at a gallery, and when we have had our fill, we leave the art behind until we think of it again, only as an activity, possibly years later. Most of the population frowns on art as though it should only be a pastime. I intend to change that mindset. Art is not meant to be solely housed inside a stationary prison but endlessly spread across the world for everyone to see. Those paintings, structures, and sculptures seen at museums and exhibits are only fractions of what art could be. When did sonnets, plays, music, and dance all stop becoming “art?” In the modern definition of the word, art is “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful.”

If that is the definition of art, then that inspires the question…what is beautiful?

You.

You are beautiful because you were created by the Beautiful. There is nothing that separates you from the professionals of this age, other than your ingrained presupposition that you simply cannot create. You are a unique and interwoven tapestry of emotions, thoughts, and ideas. Why not express them? This mess of sunshine and darkness, hopes and fears, memories and imaginations fused at your very core is what I call your story. Your story is your being. It is who you were, who you are, and who you will become simultaneously coexisting in the same plane: you. There is no one way to express your story, for each story is pricelessly unique and deserves to be told a thousand different times in a thousand different ways.

So if your story is you—and you are beautiful—and art is anything that is beautiful, then your story is art. Anything you create can be a masterpiece, not based on grade, skill level, fear of failure to reach perfection, desire to impress others, or traditional lenses of the word beauty but based solely on your heart—your story.

What if my story impacts a million people? Or even more…what if my story impacts just one? How can I not share my story and touch that one life, inspiring it with the everyday beauty in life? Not only will sharing your story impact your own life, but it will impact others. It will inspire both yourself, those around you, and those you have yet to meet. Your story will be seen, heard, and felt.

But how can you do that? It’s simple. Start by creating something once a week through any one of the innumerable art forms and post it on any social media site. Get your story out there and encourage others to join in with sharing what is in their heart. Share the pages and accounts of “What’s Your Story?” with your friends and tag the pages whenever you craft a form of art.

Spread a revolution of beauty, a revival of personal creativity. It begins with you.

Never stop creating, never stop dreaming, and never stop telling your story.

Art is everywhere—especially in you. Your story is art. It is anything you choose to create. You story is waiting…

Everybody’s got one: this is our story...how will you tell yours?

What are you waiting for?

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