re: where did my creativity go?

This is a response1 to a post by Jerichards titled Where did my creativity go? Their post resonated with me because it is something I ask myself often. Not just where did my creativity go, but what happened for it to go away? Like Jerichards I do not believe that there is anyone to blame except ourselves in this matter, because it is true that life puts pressure on us to put things aside, but for us to push away something that is so fundamentally us, that cannot be anyones fault except ours. Of course, it is always a much larger and complex issue, and they attribute their snuffing out of their creative spark to a fear of not being good at what they used to do daily. In my experience there is another layer: the feeling that I cannot be bothered with the creative act. Sometimes I see the Ableton icon, still pinned onto my taskbar, and I get the instinctual urge to open it up and mess around in there. And as I proceed to drag the mouse onto it, and leave it there to hover, the bargaining…