Enthusiasm and Creativity
Dec. 4th, 2011 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
This is why finding what we love, through it may take years, is building a life of passion. For what makes you come alive can keep you alive, whether you are paid well for it or not
We've had a new auditorium built at school, and it's due to open next week with a special concert. Some part of the concert is a CES Has Talent kind of competition... and each class in the KS2 department has to send one act forward for judging, which meant today we had to have the class heat to choose the act that we're sending forward from our class. Of course the girls all wanted to do singing kind of things to mildly dodgy pop songs (one lyric in particular sprang to mind that I thought I couldn't see going over well in a Muslim country – something about going 'all the way' tonight), but what can you do – quash the girls' passion and creativity for performing or let the next set of judges filter the material. I mean, in the spring we are performing Grease (albeit an 'edited' version), so let the kids be kids for a while, hmm?
It was actually good to see so many of the children willing to put themselves forward for this – and not just the girls, there were boys interested and involved too....and after a week of assessments and tests ready for their school reports, it was just the kind of thing the kids needed in order to blow off some steam.
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what
makes you come alive, and go do it. Because
what the world needs is people who have
come alive.
--Howard Thurman
This is why finding what we love, through it may take years, is building a life of passion. For what makes you come alive can keep you alive, whether you are paid well for it or not
We've had a new auditorium built at school, and it's due to open next week with a special concert. Some part of the concert is a CES Has Talent kind of competition... and each class in the KS2 department has to send one act forward for judging, which meant today we had to have the class heat to choose the act that we're sending forward from our class. Of course the girls all wanted to do singing kind of things to mildly dodgy pop songs (one lyric in particular sprang to mind that I thought I couldn't see going over well in a Muslim country – something about going 'all the way' tonight), but what can you do – quash the girls' passion and creativity for performing or let the next set of judges filter the material. I mean, in the spring we are performing Grease (albeit an 'edited' version), so let the kids be kids for a while, hmm?
It was actually good to see so many of the children willing to put themselves forward for this – and not just the girls, there were boys interested and involved too....and after a week of assessments and tests ready for their school reports, it was just the kind of thing the kids needed in order to blow off some steam.
