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Art & culture
Creativity
By Abel Merawi
et me indulge you everyday people. As the but it is this very road that
in the life of an rest of us remain victims of re-creates and re-shapes
Limaginary writer. circumstances, this writer the world. She is gripped
She is sitting in a room filled is fighting the noble war for by anxiety since every
with the sound of silence. In humanity. Her pen and paper word she imprints on paper
solitude, she struggles with work in unison to create creates new possibilities.
her inner world, seemingly order out of chaos. Do not There is hesitation and long
lost to the outside world. In be mistaken by assuming pauses whenever she feels
this state of being, there is she has neglected life; it the weight of uncertainty.
transcendence of immediate is rather her seriousness Yet, she pursues her vision
reality in a struggle to create that leads her to this path. by humbly accepting the
the future. She is oblivious The road she travels is one possibility of being wrong.
to the daily struggles of filled with the unknown, The struggle is utterly
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