Bua

All my life, I have considered myself a creative person. Firstly, ever since primary school I have adored creative story writing as a way of expressing intriguing, imaginary ideas. I love inventing new characters and scenarios, and coming up with interesting vocabulary to describe vivid scenes. Another thing that I enjoy about creative writing is that you can invoke powerful emotional responses through words, be it positive or negative. You can place people in someone else’s shoes, and offer a different perspective on something you wouldn’t necessarily think about. I sometimes feel down about my disability and therefore I use creative writing as a means to escape to someone else’s viewpoint, in a different place and time. I have a great interest in history and so I often write about how I imagine one to have felt in certain time period, so I combine facts with feelings, and this often results in a more human perspective on the subject in question. It isn’t just creative writing that I enjoy - my other hobby is to take photographs and edit them. I use Adobe Lightroom to do this. I love photography because you can manipulate colours and light, and one photograph can have several different interpretations, depending on how you edit it. For example, a photograph with low light and colour can look gloomy or sad, but if you add more light and colour, the photograph can look inviting and joyful. Photography is also something that I believe I have a talent for and whenever I feel like my disability makes me feel like I have little purpose, I look back at the photographs I’ve created and realise that I have creative talent.