Creation - Happiness

I have seen nests in my yard built by humming birds, bushtits, sparrows, mocking birds, etc. At first glance, they don’t seem like much, but considered from the perspective that they were built twig by twig, feather by feather, for a purpose, they take on a form of creative beauty. However, from the point of pure evolution they are not the result of creativity, but the result of an improbable sequence of random mistakes in DNA. This is not intended to be a discussion about creation vs evolution. We can agree the sparrow’s nest did not come from a pregnant sparrow sitting a branch, head tilted pondering the question of how to take care of her eggs and coming up with the idea of building a nest.

Human beings are different than birds and all other animals. This may be the result of billions of improbable, random mutations of even more improbable DNA molecules or a directed act of creation by an intelligent something. Earliest humans had an ability to observe the activities of their lives and recreate them in paintings on cave walls. What motivated them? It’s hard to say, but the desire of humans to create still exists.

The human body is a factory of mood changing chemicals called endorphins. That’s right; we get high on our own drugs. We don’t purchase them on dark corners. We have to do something to stimulate our bodies to make endorphins. There are many things that work. A happy person will have several of them in their lives. Things such as hard physical labor, feeling love for a person or pet, are a couple of endorphin stimulators.

An important stimulator is creation. You see the act of creation all around you. Different people express it in different ways. Some write poetry, some sew, some make crafts, some create a business, some make music, and it goes on. Even a well cooked dinner, artistically placed on a plate, garnished for appearance, on a decorated table is an act of creation. Each person has creative gifts; find yours and create; you’ll be happier.