Description: The creative playground of M.M. Cordero
Whoever came up with the saying “It is easier to destroy than create.”, was certainly on to something. I believe this saying is viewed as an admonishment of human nature’s powers of destruction, but to me it glides over the Herculean tasks of creation as an afterthought.
As someone who is trying to engage in creative endeavors, I feel like Sisyphus trying to roll the stone up the mountain. But even Sisyphus has an edge on me. He at least gets a stone up to the top of the mountain and finishes the task, even if he has to begin again the next day. My stone gets about a third of the way up and just sits there.
A perfect example of this is this blog, which I started several months ago with the intent of using as a portfolio of my work. The work that I have (as yet) to create. I have been stranded in the doldrums. The wind is out of my sails. My creative spark is circling the drain somewhere in the Bermuda triangle, languishing in the heat, dehydrated, and on the verge of death. I’ve been sending out search parties to find it, but to no avail. It looks grim.