Beautifully thoughtful and insightful piece. I believe every human has a yearning to create, its just that many don't understand that is the feeling that they have or that "missing piece" to their life. I think we all have this energy inside us that gets pent up if we do not release it by creating. This could be creating another life (a child), an epic meal, a piece of music, a work of art with whatever medium(s) of choice. Bringing something to "life" is an amazingly rewarding feeling. I grew up as a dancer but after partying and losing sight of my passions, my body began to not move in the ways I intended when I set out to express myself. This led to years of anxiety, the feeling of being lost, the feeling of added energy that had no where to be released. I just now began creating again, in the medium of wood. I now dream of ideas and wake with an untameable yearning to release these ideas into "life". Bring them out of my soul and into a tangible item. Its insanely rewarding and I've never felt so calm and fulfilled in my life. My hope is that all humans listen to that "creator" energy inside us all and release it, bring it to life.
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Interesting evolution of your creative life... thanks for sharing!
I ended up not considering myself "artistic" at all... so I took some solace in being a writer, and made peace with writing non-fiction as my creative outlet. It didn't make me particularly happy... nor was it much of a commercial success as I mostly worked as a technical writer for other companies. One day I Realized it was not MY creativity being expressed in those words-to-order jobs. So I stopped.
Today I only write for the enjoyment of it... doing things like Steemit and a couple of other blogs.
Interestingly enough, I started painting geometric patterns and mandalas when I was in my mid-40s... finally getting over my impression that I "wasn't creative." I have been much happier since then.