What creating actually means

Creating is often presented as a result, a finished piece, something visible.

But for me, creation mostly happens before all that. In the thinking, testing, attempts that don't go anywhere

Most of what I create (or try to at least) never reach a final state. Not because it lacks effort, but because the process itself takes over. I spend more time exploring directions than validating outcomes.

There's a gap between what I imagine and what I'm able to produce. That gap can sometimes be uncomfortable.

Creating, in that sense, isn't about execution only. It's about confronting limits (technical, creative or even mental). Seeing ideas collapse, adjusting and starting again.

I'm starting to see creation less as producing something, and more as staying in that unstable space long enough to understand what I'm actually trying to say.

Sometimes, nothing comes out of it, and that's still part of the process.