A Particularly Creative Sort of Suffering.

[Greydawn]

“Suffering is justified as soon as it becomes the raw material of beauty.”

~Jean-Paul Sartre

Edgar Allan Poe and Vincent van Gogh; two coincidentally rhyming names that will weather history, signed upon the fantastic works of art by the men who bore them. It was suffering that both drove and crushed them, much the same as many authors and painters and actors around the world. If Edgar Allan Poe had not had such tragedy following him like a terrible shadow, would his writing not have been as fantastic and grim? If Vincent van Gogh had not been plagued by anxiety, would his paintings have been so beautifully emotional?

Many of us MDers are creative -- and many of us are aspiring writers and drawers. I personally write the best, and I have the most drive, when I'm feeling emotionally charged, such as anxious or sad. The greatest authors take their life's pain and weave it into their novels. What about you all? In what ways have your daydreaming, anxieties, disorders or troubles improved your creativity? In what ways has it built your character? Has it made you a better person?

If it hasn't, then couldn't it start to now?

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PS. If you are 'suffering', don't wait because you think it will be better for your art. It is the experiences that you compiled, not the continuation of the pain itself that I am wondering about. 

[KwanKwan]

sometimes i write poems when i'm really feeling sad or depressed. but sometimes it's just too much, you know? Like i do love Edgar Allan Poe, but sometimes i think to myself "Why would i want to remember all this pain? I want to get rid of it!"

Anyways i have a diary, but it's not daydream related.

[rose]

In fact I think that daydreaming has given me nothing through my whole life. Instead it stopped me from being better and accomplishing more. I feel happier and more creative when I do not daydream. when I daydream I do absolutely nothing. It is different from all pains(at least for me). It stops my mind so I can't live my life. I stopped daydreaming two days ago now and I feel great. I do not want it back.

I have stopped it before for a period of time then I went back to it. And I do not know why?.

 

But I hope it will last this time.

 

Although I believe that pain (not daydreaming) makes us stronger and teaches us a lot. We can use pain as a power to push us to change our lives and achieve our goals.

 

finally, Thank you for your intrested post.