Imagination as a Child

As a young boy I grew up in a healthy environment, I had just about everything a child could ever want from toys to video games to pets. But all of that did not catch my interest, what really stood out to me was my passion to draw and create things with a pencil and paper. Unlike me, David the six year old boy from Stitches had a much more cruel childhood and underwent extreme days which were clear to see why he needed to escape somehow.  However, as for me I did not use drawing to escape, rather I used it as entertain myself and a way to express my feelings.

I always knew I would never be as great as Pablo Picasso or the next great artist but I enjoyed it more than anything growing up. Drawing challenged my childhood even though it was my passion although my peers did not see it that way.

 Having an older brother and a lot of family who enjoyed other activates like playing outside or playing videogames really threw me as the odd kid in the family. On top of having health conditions like asthma and a stigmatism playing outside really fatigued me and playing inside with videogames left me nearly blind for hours so I withdrew myself from activities like that.

 Unfortunately, I became what my parents liked to call the “chunky boy”. Indeed I was completely out of shape and overweight. At about the age of thirteen I joined the football club and the local boxing gym which developed me to lose the extra pounds I packed on as a kid and am now in the greatest shape I have ever been in my life, and plan on keeping it that way.  

I believe I would never be the person I am today if it wasn’t for my passion to draw. Drawing excited me, knowing I could create a work of art in my eyes made more sense than doing things others wanted me to do.  I never took criticism too seriously, but I did understood I was wrong at times like not getting enough exercise, or doodling in class and not paying attention to the lectures my teachers would give.

Till this day I still have that passion and creative energy to dose off in class and start to doodle on the margins of handouts or on myself.  I know I will continue to draw things any and everywhere if I get even a little bored. I am even expanding my creativity off of paper to more complex things like painting and wood carvings which I find fascinating. I may be the odd kid of my family but I believe different is better, and that motivates me and keeps the kid in me out.