From childhood we idolize many people in life. We wanted to be like them, we follow their footsteps. But, ‘being original is being creative’. Creative people may or may not be original but originality comes with creativity.

We have hundreds of channels and thousands of T.V. shows and programs to choose from. We land up choosing shows which makes us calm, which makes us laugh, gives information. We have option in our set top boxes called, trending shows, trending channels it helps us to choose what to watch. But I think we choose wrongly when we choose trending things. Just because everyone is watching, we think we should also watch it otherwise we will miss something.

Our originality lies in what different choices we make in life, rather than copying others. Following a public figure is good, follow their good qualities and blend it with your originality. The outcome will amaze you, you will follow your idol without loosing yourself too. Each one of us has unique qualities, enhance those wonderful qualities. This can’t be done by watching T.V. or being occupied whole day on social media. It can only be achieved by first of all know, your creativity lies in which field. Music? Dance? Writing? Public speaking? Acting? Painting? Sports?

Some are God gifted and others have to learn from others to develop their skills. We always compare one child to another but each and every child is special. If one child is good in studies another may be good in sports. I am lucky to have an all-rounder at home.

When your parents force you to do something but you don’t have interest in doing that makes you hate that particular activity, in childhood. And if by chance you agree to do that, you will loose your originality, you keep on thinking the way your parents makes you to think. Adventures, exploring things these all activities are necessary for development of a child’s mind.

I have seen so many painting competitions with a topic, with a theme. For example, draw anything which shows different type of eco-friendly products etc. I know the idea behind giving a topic to the child is to let the child think about it. But, don’t you think organizers are forcing the child to think that way. Every child has his/her own mindset. Forget about competitions, at home just give your child colours and drawing sheet let them draw what they want to draw. You will see your child will draw things which he/she may have never discussed with you. Their own feelings, may be you will better know about their mindset then.

We all refer to Google for even making a drawing when it is given in our child’s homework. Children have stop thinking, stop imagining, stop observing things around them. They just sit and Google everything, find answers in YouTube channels. Originality has taken back seat. They just copy from internet. What can I say about children I myself download images from Google to wish on any occassion to someone.

Home cooked food has its own aroma, it’s unique, original style of cooking. Now what we do is, order food from outside food chains, we keep on eating same burger again and again, with less nutritional value and more harm to health. Homecooked food is more hygienic, more healthy as the ingredients are of high quality, it satisfy our hunger more easily. Original taste of a dish is enhanced by the love which is poured in homecooked food than the food available in any restaurant. They cook food to make money, but homecooked food is made with love and care and ingredients are choosen very carefully. No women of the family will choose adulterated ingredients from market even if it’s cheap on pocket. She will choose to buy less quantity instead.

Coming back to originality. When we write any blog it’s our own creativity the way we write is our originality. Everyone has their own style of writing. You may find many blogs on same topic but the content in each one of them will be different from one another.

Be original, be creative. Happy blogging.

Ramneet Kaur