Search For Inspiration

“Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not creative by nature. Like most, I foster creativity through various outlets which connect me with society. The exchange of thoughts, ideas, and conversation summons my personal creativity. I would safely bet, most of society feels the same way. Thus why masses attract to social networking site such as Twitter and Facebook.

Cease of Inspiration
Creativity to foster new ideas happens most often during our interaction with others. Throughout history, we can read about the great minds of each period discussing and arguing each other’s ideas. Even the great artists would co create next to each other from time to time. It’s surrounding ourselves with other’s who foster our own creativity. In our society today, we are using technology to recreate our inspirational bubbles. What happens if it fails?

Recent research revealed Twitter has an enormous quit rate. Why? Is is boredom with the features, too many established cliques, or personal life not conducive to social networking? It probably is a mix of all the above. The #1 reason being Twitter lacks fueling inspiration for others. Somewhere, users are not feeling connected with others. Their Twitter account fails to share new ideas, thoughts, or profound arguments to wrap one head’s around. There’s a failure to inspire.

Social media is by far an incredible outlet for us to network beyond traditional boundaries. Regardless of how amazing or simple technology is, it fails to satisfy our desire for close proximity relationships. We can see this by the trend of users making dedicated attempt to connect off line. No matter how quit the interface, how imbedded it is in our lives, or wide of a network, the manifestation of ideas created from discussions with others physically around us cannot be recreated.

What happens between two or more people sitting in a Denny’s discussing life, taxes, law, and business is magical. It’s the immediate responses, physical, emotional, and intellectual to which we play off of. There is no technology that can mimic a really great debate. We will never see presidential debates via Twitter accounts or Vimeo. The inspirational magic would never occur.

In our search for inspiration we may look to faith, newspapers, nature, or Twitter, but it only supplements what we can create with other humans. By far, developing long lasting friendships will reward us greater than any exchange of 140 characters or less.