How I Rate Creativity

First of all, I would like to state that I find creativity to be an extremely personal thing. Studying poetry is an opportunity to gauge how people have changed their perception of creativity over the centuries. One thing I find important is how many questions a person asks. Curious people tend to display a wider range of intellect, and tend to be more "creative." If you like knowing how things work, or stop your class, even if there is two hundred of you, to demand clarification, you are creative. If you desire to work with color through sculpting, painting, or describing, you are creative. If you wish to discover alternatives to a particular problem, or cannot seem to receive the help you desire and develop your own methods, congratulations! You are creative. If you have a passion for life, art, imitation, even understanding death, well, you know what you are. If you are capable of loving, and have a willingness to share that emotion, or any emotion, you are most certainty creative. My point is that in twenty short years, I have found that one needs not have a knack for words to be creative. All you need to do is live, breathe, feel, and realize "it is such a simple thing to look beyond the immediate present." Winnifred Gies stated perfectly in her poem, the title of which slips my mind, "that all she really needed was simply just to be." I think THAT is what it means to be creative.