Creativity Is Not a Career, It’s a Way of Being

For a long time, I thought creativity needed permission.

Permission to be useful.

Permission to be profitable.

Permission to make sense to other people.

Somewhere along the way, creativity became something we apply to our lives instead of something we live inside. A skill. A side hustle. A job title. A means to an end.

But creativity existed in me long before I ever called myself a designer, a director, or a creative anything.

It was there in how I noticed things.

How I rearranged ideas How I saw patterns, gaps, possibilities.

Creativity, I’ve learned, is not a career path.

It’s a way of being in the world.

It’s how you solve problems without asking for permission

It’s how you survive uncertainty.

It’s how you make meaning when structure falls away.

When I create now, I’m not chasing relevance or validation.

I’m responding to something internal — a pull, a curiosity, a need to understand myself and the world around me a little better, especially with everything thats been placed on this life journey so far.

This website, this body of work, this blog — it’s not a pivot.

It's a return.

A return to creating because it’s how I process life.

Because it’s how I stay connected to myself.

Because it’s how I contribute to culture, community, and care.

If you’ve ever felt like you needed to justify your creativity, this is your reminder:

You don’t need permission to be who you already are.

Love

#CarmenGoCreative