Inspiration isn't always easy to find. It likes to play hide and seek and it is a professional at hiding. When you’re
down on your luck, preoccupied with work, or unhappy it can be hard to be
creative and passionate, but once it sparks, it ignited a flame. I got started
thinking about the summer and applying to be a Maccabiah (Color War) co chair
for my week of encampment at the end of the summer. I started looking up color
war ideas and when I saw the words “fake break”, I found real inspiration.
Memories of camp color war fake breaks and real color war breaks flooded my
mind, from limos with fake celebrities to helicopter candy drops, I lost track
of everything else I was doing and zoned in. An hour flew by without notice,
but afterwards I had before me and entire page filled with ideas for ways to
make an amazing Maccabiah. Once I was on the camp mindset I got thinking about
my talk with my German host sister from the summer of 2011 about camp and
started writing a possible college application essay about what camp means to
me. It is a very good thing I finished my homework for the weekend yesterday
because I would not have been able to do it now after drawing up so much
creativity towards Maccabiah. A friend of mine had the slogan “Get Excited. Get
Inspired. Get Involved.” This slogan is the epitome of how to draw inspiration.
Find something worth getting excited about. Find your inspiration for it- bing
it, google it, yahoo it, urban dictionary it, or even real dictionary it. Then
go for it. Make it happen. Do something worthwhile and don’t let that
creativity go to waste.
