The Value of Creating Beauty Even When It Is Unseen
In today’s post, you’ll learn about the purpose of creating something beautiful, artful, or useful before it is widely appreciated or accepted.
The reason I’m sharing this topic on the blog today is that after over a decade of creating digital content online, I’ve had experience making art—whether it be an image, a piece of writing, or even a course—and having it not be seen.
Which begs the question: why are we inspired to create objects, products, writing, photos, or anything at all if it’s not for anyone?
I’ll discuss this below, but before we get into it—during this past year, I did a major blog overhaul and ended up deleting around 200 old blog posts that were no longer getting views.
At one point, people enjoyed reading them. They met a need. But over time, those blogs stopped generating traffic or views.
Because it’s just me maintaining the blog, there’s only so much I can reasonably keep updated.
When no one is reading certain posts, the effort that goes into maintaining them doesn’t really pay off—since the blogs are created for readers to enjoy.
That said, I ended up creating a lot of beautiful pieces of writing—loved and enjoyed for a time—but now no one sees them, as they sit in a discontinued folder offline.
Additionally, I coach new bloggers and writers on building their platforms before they have an audience. It can take a year or more of consistent creation before an audience forms, so it requires faith that, eventually, the keyword density will build up and the right people will find it.
Before that happens, though, you must create beauty and allow it to be unseen.
Even today, I regularly create pieces of content that may take 18 months or more before they are widely accepted or gain traction.
So I know a few things about creating beauty even when it’s unseen—and there is value in it.
If you create—whether you write, make art, knit or crochet, take photographs, or share helpful social media posts—even if no one comments, shares, likes, or responds now (or ever), there is still a reason for it.
Unseen beauty does not mean unappreciated beauty. Sharing and creating beauty is in essence, sharing and creating from a place of your love, and love shared or expressed is never wasted.
You will appreciate the beauty you create, and others, in time, may discover it and quietly or loudly appreciate and respond to it in their own way.
Below are 4 reasons why the beauty you create has value, even if it is unseen:
1 - You become a vessel for inspiration
When you create beauty, you are essentially taking a dream or vision and bringing it into material form. You become a divine vessel for inspiration.
You—the visionary and dreamer—allow yourself to be the body through which inspiration speaks.
This is incredibly beautiful because it requires a connection to your inner self and to the Life Force that exists in all things. You listen to both and act upon what you receive.
Getting practice being the vessel through which inspiration flows is essential—not only for creativity but for alignment. The more you allow yourself to be a conduit for creativity, the more you align with your purpose and meaning in life.
2 - The Universe sees it
Even if others don’t outwardly receive your creation with wide, loving acceptance immediately or abundantly, there is quiet grace in knowing that the Universe—and All That Is—sees your commitment to adding more love and joy to the world.
There is an energetic acknowledgment of your efforts and your offering to make the world a better place. Any beauty that is created—whether it’s art or a helpful product—is an attempt to improve life, and this has value in the eyes of the Universe.
3 - It creates the way for others
Sometimes creating beauty requires walking the road less traveled—or even the road never traveled. There are times you’ll receive inspiration to create something that has never existed before—to add something beautiful to the world that has not yet been done.
The old saying, “there’s nothing new under the sun,” is a lie told by someone with a cynical outlook. New inventions and creations emerge every day.
When you add new and original beauty, others may not understand it right away—but that doesn’t mean they won’t eventually.
4 - The feeling of liberation and freedom
When you create beauty, you’re often in a state of deep connection with your creative life-force energy. This alignment brings a liberating, freeing feeling that has value.
Society today has so many rules—rules for relationships, work, software, stores, clothing and trade. These rules help us coexist, but they can also feel restrictive.
When you create, you are temporarily free from those rules and judgments. It’s just you and the object of your creation.
This period of total connection—where you free yourself from rules—can bring profound joy.
So creating beauty allows you to experience joy, and that joy has value.
Okay, so these are 4 reasons why creating something beautiful, even if it isn’t seen or acknowledged by others, has value:
You become a vessel for inspiration.
The Universe energetically acknowledges it.
It creates a pathway for others.
It brings liberation and joy.
When you are engaged in the act of creation, part of the process requires you to let go of the outcome.
I know the outcome matters—there are often financials, numbers and performance metrics tied to what you make—but this week, as you create, see if you can step back from all that and simply ask:
“What piece of creation wants to flow through me next?”
See if you can create that.
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