Why We Love Making Things - The Creative Urge

Why is it that we bother doing anything?

Why is it that we work our whole life building and creating things beyond the necessary minimum?

Developing careers and businesses.

Innovating technologies.

And making art.

All things that we work so hard for, just to end up saying goodbye forever to them when we pass on.

The reason why it might seem foolish to bother working towards creating anything, is the same reason why we do: the awareness of death.

As a creature that can ponder and foresee the imminence if it's own mortality, we are compelled to not only survive the here-and-now, but to extend our existence beyond the limited timeline of our perishable mind and body.

Because of death, we find great fulfillment in the process of bringing things from within our self, outside of our self.

Manifesting things into reality that would not exist if it were not for our sole existence.

Because it is this process that makes us feel like we can beat death.

That we can somehow live beyond it.

That our existence can have meaning in spite of it.

During our short lifetime, we want nothing more than to leave our individual fingerprint on reality.

To create a ripple that floods into the eternal.

Because the concept of accomplishing this is what allows us to truly tolerate the foresight of our own death.

It is what gives us the hope that we are connected to the infinite.

And it is this that we should pursue.

Do that which fulfills this and makes you feel, even if just momentarily, like you are god.

Do what is unique to you.

What is innovative and impactful.

Say the unsaid.

Do the undone.

Bring your thoughts, ideas, and sense of life into reality.

Do something that can live on in your name.

Because it just might, and that's a pretty cool reason to bother doing anything.