How to Direct your Creative Energy in a Positive Direction (Instead of Throwing It Away Writing Reviews)

Be the change you want to see.

“You can have literature without literary criticism, but you can’t have literary criticism without literature.”

-My Literature Professor

While putting together this piece, I’ve partaken in one of my favorite silly pastimes:

I love reading one-star reviews of famous national monuments and beloved places. National Parks. Famous museums. The Sydney Opera House. This always makes me laugh, but it represents something much darker in western society, namely the wasting of creative energy towards negativity, negative thought patterns, and negative reviews. I see it everywhere in today’s world. You have a finite amount of creative energy, and when you are conditioned to be negative, that energy is wasted. A long-winded post on a one-star review is a waste of your precious, limited creative energy.

It may sound hokey, but negativity has a snowball-rolling-down-a-hill effect. The more you perceive life negatively, the more you will have negative experiences. The more you experience life negatively, the more negative and nihilistic you become.