I do not strive to be unique in my creative endeavors. I do tend to think outside of the box. I strive to be authentic. We’re all unique already. Even identical twins will experience the world differently from each other, and diverge as they live and grow.

I will have ideas that are different from yours. Different, but not foreign. I am another part of you. We are all related, no matter our skin color or our culture.

We are alike enough to understand, yet different enough to be interesting.

We look out onto the same planet, and we perceive it individually.

I gaze on the world through the filter of my experience, just as you see the same world through yours. One is not wrong because the other different.

Your creative voice may offer me a new perspective, and help me to understand something I hadn’t before.

The trick is in realizing that my way is not the only way. No matter how comfortable my way is to me, there are other viable, beautiful ways. You can teach me. No matter who you are, and I can offer you something in return.

Am I repeating myself? I’ve said things like this before. With different words. Words arranged differently, conveying the same message. Like sketches of the same subject, or roses, offering their familiar scent.