Creativity and how I can find inspiration anywhere by Nicholas

Creativity and how I can find inspiration anywhere by Nicholas - July 2023 Scholarship Essay

Sometimes people get lazy, and they don't want to do their work. Sometimes it spirals from there as you then start to complete homework right before the deadline. This leads to you stressing more about homework and your deadlines and if you really will make it through this semester. In my first semester I entered fresh-faced and excited for the opportunity to learn about my favorite mediums and how to create art in those fields. I was also excited to make new friends and possibly even meet someone, if ya catch my drift. Of course that wasn't why I was going to college, but it was part of what made me excited.
It didn’t exactly turn out how I thought it would. After going for a couple days I quickly realized that many people just didn’t really care to make a new friend, and I realized that I myself was a little socially anxious because I was in a new space with new people that I didn’t know, and there were a bunch of them. This stunk, but I had friends back home so I didn’t let it bother me all that much. One day I end up getting a message. It’s from a person that I won’t name for anonymity sake, so I’ll just call them Claire. Claire messages me through the school email talking about how much they love my projects in our art class together, and so I message them back thanking them. We start talking, and eventually we plan to go to the Indianapolis children’s museum together, as a sorta date/hangout. We didn’t call it a date, but it had the date vibe.
To not get bogged down in unnecessary details, eventually we started dating fully, and then eventually broke up, and it was not a good break up. It was incredibly tough, and this made my focus on school hard to maintain. As I said, I began to lag behind, completing projects only right before the due date, which made me stress a whole lot more about them. I genuinely wasn’t sure how I was gonna be able to focus on school with this weighing down on my mind, but eventually something clicked. I had no motivation because I was putting the wrong energy into my projects. Instead of moping about my breakup and just barely completing schoolwork I ended up using all those emotions to further my education.
I took the emotions I was feeling about that situation and tweaked it to be my tool for creativity and imagination. It worked wonders, and I ended up completing the semester strong with A’s across the board! I now realize that when I am going through tough times that I can then use that to bolster my creativity, such as using my frustrating work environment to fuel two different stories I’ve wrote for other scholarships. Just because I fall on hard times does not mean that I gotta stop in my tracks. I can use those hard times to keep rolling, and that’s probably one of the most important lessons I learned in my first semester of college!