It’s very hard not to be a copycat, with so many thoughts out there in the world can we ever be original.
Do we reach the same conclusions from reaching into our own innate intelligence and finding our own answers. Perhaps the works of others inspire us and trigger our thinking, perhaps we forget where our answers come from. I learn on my own, through experience, but also through meaningful conversation, art and literature. It wasn’t long ago someone told me something I wrote was similar to the poet and philosopher Rumi, I hadn’t intended it to be but when I thought about it, because he is one of my favourite poets it is quite possible that his words run through my veins. I’m okay with this as I hadn’t intentionally copied him, what I said was similar. I’m on a journey of self discovery, so I will be looking to what others before me have said.
As I said in a post earlier today, to create something that comes to us naturally, will be as near to perfect as we can get. The best work comes from the heart, runs onto the paper from your veins. I do hope that I haven’t got that from somewhere else because I would hate to be a copycat 😉
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Copying the style of others is definitely how we learn. I see it in my poetry. Whoever I am immersed in at the time comes through in my writing. As well as my art. I specifically draw from others drawings to learn techniques of shading, form, etc. I think it all seeps in to make you who you are as an artist.
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Absolutely, we are learning all the time, students of all those that went before. If we didn’t look to others for how to do things we would still be crawling 😉 x
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hahahaha loved that last line! Having said that, I have doubted myself on many occasions as I have one of those memories. I come up with stuff and it’s completely random, and I still wonder whether I read that somewhere at sometime. Wierd, huh?! lol
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It made me giggle as I wrote it 😉 like you say can so easily happen though.
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It’s funny how at times it’s just there,unquestionably good night dear friend,TTYL tomorrow. 6 am comes early. Have a CT scan at 7 40 and get
Must be there 20 minstrel ahead sleep well
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Sleep tight, just up here 😉😘
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Having a spectacular day daaaarlingh? couldn’t resist.
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Getting dark here now 😉hope the scan goes well 😘
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Scan was literally 2 seconds took 40 minutes to find them and a lot of painful walking. but it’s done. I’ll know in 2 to 3 days what’s up/
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Hope all is okay my dear, sending love and healing xx
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Thank you so much.
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