The Need To Create
So God created humankind in his own image;
in the image of God he created him:
male and female he created them.
Love and Attraction Leads Us To Create
The thing about love and attraction is that we never realise that much of it has to do with our innate biology: the need to procreate, the need to create something or someone, which is why you'll sometimes see two very naïve individuals falling head over heels over one another when they have nothing in common. It's hormones and the need to create. After all, our Creator created Adam from dust, and Eve, from Adam’s spare ribs.
You Mirror Your Creator When You Create
Much of this can be pointed back to our calling and purpose. Humans have an instinctual need to create. God has bestowed upon us the creative faculties needed in order to illuminate and understand the meaning of life.
Not Creating Is a Form of Suicide
...The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
— Mary Oliver
Those who do not allow themselves the liberty to create, be it popping babies or indulging in the creative field of art or science, are in a way killing themselves at the expense of living. Their life has become the gun that they point to their head; it is also a form of suicide. Their life lacks a circular motion, because they consume, but don't create.
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in the which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation. One can ask them why they exaggerate, why it is so important, but the over-importance or overemphasis is not made consciously. The charge goes into their personal foolishnesses because a part of the dynamic center is not parked or not in connection with the right motivation. The moment these people devote themselves to what is really important, the whole overcharge flows in the right direction, ceasing to heat up things not worth so much emotional attention.
— Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
The Creative Side Exists Solely for Us To Create
This is why some people are so dead inside. Despite the amount of wealth and success they have, they have become living corpses. Now, before you tell me that these people have done their sole duty of "creating" by having lots of money, there is a difference between generating and creating. There is nothing novel about earning money, as humans need to survive and feed their families. You can have lots of wealth but still neglect your creative side. That creative side that places innovation before wealth. That creative side that forgets about survival but exists solely to create.
When Creativity Is Fused With the Mundane
Our culture of consumption is creativity’s greatest enemy. For example, some people would rather eat out than cook their own food, as cooking is seen as a monotonous task instead of one that is fun and energising. When it reality, while cooking can be considered as a menial task, it is also an avenue for us to create. Our creative faculties are there, but they're not connected. The plug has been pulled. We think of art and music as tasks that are creative, but the reality is that life truly comes alive when our creativity is effectively fused with the mundane.
Why Women Should Do Creative Work
Now I'm neither a Marxist nor a communist, but here, Lenin proposed that true women's liberation can only exist within the context of real communism, whatever that is.
Notwithstanding all the laws emancipating woman, she continues to be a domestic slave, because petty housework crushes, strangles, stultifies and degrades her, chains her to the kitchen and the nursery, and she wastes her labour on barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking, stultifying and crushing drudgery. The real emancipation of women, real communism, will begin only where and when an all-out struggle begins (led by the proletariat wielding the state power) against this petty housekeeping, or rather when its wholesale transformation into a large-scale socialist economy begins.
Note the words in bold. It is indeed ironic that whilst Lenin expounds on the slaving away that housewives have to face, he promotes ☭ communism, another form of slavery.
But that is besides the point.
Lenin is partially right in noting that housework "crushes, strangles, stultifies and degrades" women. But what Lenin overlooks is this: when the time spent on housework outweighs the time spent on creative work, that's when it truly becomes a form of slavery.
Jung was also a champion of women doing creative work, as women are key conduits in relating to the unconscious, namely, their animus.
The animus is also in creativity. There he's in his right place. That's why Jung was very much for women doing creative work, because that occupies the animus in what he should do, namely relate to the unconscious.
— Marie-Louise von Franz, Jungian analyst
So you see, the author of all things creative created us so that we may also create.