Class Take-Away the Third

This post begins with a self-help book. Or rather a discussion with my mother about self-help books that, sparing the details, ends with her positive review of one called Life Doesn't Have to be a Struggle. (Or something like that; I don't actually remember the title.) From there a memory sprang forth of a most likely fake self-help book read by Detective Jason Walsh (played by Jeremy Renner) in a very underrated cop drama called The Unusuals, in order to stall a criminal they were holding so that they could wait his accomplice out and get him to confess. That thought then connects to my mini, purple, Swingline stapler. I ran out of staples in it months ago and finally decided to reload it. I tried and tried to get it to open, keeping an eye out for helpful arrows - that never appeared - until finally I just pulled up on the top of it. Voilà! The stapler opened and I reloaded the thing. 
So where is all of this going? Well it goes back to the idea that life doesn't have to be difficult. A stapler can just open. A criminal can just confess. An egg project can just be a fun connection to one's childhood. So yes, dear Mr. Yoshi Egg, you where what I pulled the most from in this particular class. You proved that painted dots, though simple in concept, were actually a wonderful reminder of times spent having fun as a kid.    
But what does that mean for my future exploration into creativity? Easy. No seriously. Just the word easy. Life doesn't have to be difficult. And I'm not saying it won't have struggles and downs and whatnot, 'cause it totally will. But it's how we handle the shit life throws at us is what makes the struggle. So when something isn't flowing creatively, I'm going to try not to force it. Now this doesn't mean that if I'm on the clock I won't try to meet deadline (I believe there was a discussion about that also). What it means is that, come a creative project that is solely mine, deep-core mine, then I will try to let it just organically come to fruition. It doesn't have to be difficult. It can just be a Yoshi Egg.