Dare to Dream Infinitely is a place where creative, and imaginative people come to seek
inspiration and to inspire others. This is also a place to grow your awareness and challenge yourself to think beyond simplicity. We are all nerds
here, so don’t be afraid to let it show!!
Set up:
For a few months at a time I will focus on one of the books in the Harry Potter series and it will serve as inspiration for many things I will be
posting about. I will also post things such as fashion look books, vlogs, tips,
recipes, crafts, and more! I will also talk about other books I enjoy and from time to time I may stray from the specific book I'm currently focusing on. Basically this is a Harry Potter/ Lifestyle blog where the main focus is creativity and getting inspired.
How to get
involved:
I will have a comment
section underneath each of the prompts where you are free (and encouraged) to
write your own responses to the prompts. I would like you all to remember,
however, that this is a place of creativity. It is not a forum in which to
criticize others or to be rude. The way to progress in writing is to continue
to write and read and be inspired by someone else's writing.
Why I began the blog and a little about me:
College- the place where classes, homework, and late
night cram sessions stamp out that once bright flame that was your creativity
This became the sad, but
true, definition of college for me. I was so overwhelmed with the task of
finding a balance between sleep, school, food, and friends, that my love of
reading and writing got pushed to the side. I told myself that I simply “had
more important things to worry about than that fun stuff.” After a very short
while I realized that, in order to maintain my sanity, I needed to make time for (what I so
narrow-mindedly deemed) “fun stuff”. The first step I took in actually making
that change was to find the benefits that reading and writing creatively would
bring to me and to my education.
I have always believed
that young adult novels, works of fantasy, and all other creative works had a
real and under recognized value to both the everyday reader and the scholarly
reader. The first reason is that the term literature, as scholars define it, can
be applied to nearly any work. Their definition claims that a piece of
literature is one that requires the reader the think at a higher level than the
average reader. It is a give and take between what is written and who is
reading it. By this definition, if you read the text and look for more than
just the story, that text has become literature to you whether or not the
general public and scholars have titled it as such. The second reason
that creative works are so important is that they work as a kind of every-man’s
textbook. They teach about the issues in the world, diversity, the value of
independent thought. They address compassion and empathy, love and hate, the
power one has to both create and destroy. They can also teach us about major,
hot topic, ideas such as free love and equality and the struggles and freedoms
that come with them. Lastly, books, no matter their literary status, change us
and help us grow as people. You may read a book and find that you agreed with
and understood the ideas presented in it. You may not have been taught
something new, but you were given a sturdier structure on which your ideas and
values can stand. This idea also works when you haven’t heard of or even agree
with anything the book talks about. A book like this gives you a chance to ask
yourself why it is you don’t agree and what about that person’s/society’s views
differ so greatly from your own.
The reason I found to get
back to writing is something I heard while roaming YouTube recently. The reason
is simple and so profound that it required only one sentence to make me
understand. A life in which you don’t create is not a life worth living. And
that is so true! A life that is well lived is one, that once over, has
something to show for it. At the end of my life, those who loved me should not
be able to look back at my educational life and say, “She was so brilliant! She
wrote all those essays that hundreds of other students wrote! She had no ideas
or thoughts of her own. Wow, what a wonderfully average life she lived!” I want
them to say something like “She was always creating, that girl was. She had an
imagination and a curiosity that never died, no matter how old she got. She had
eyes that saw a world in a way that other’s eyes would not.” This second person
is the person I want to be remembered as at the end of my life, not the first.
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