Top 3 Attributes I look for in my Potential Husband: Creativity

This is a fairly personal thing for me but I don't think I could be in a relationship with someone who wasn't creative in some way. Creativity is such a subjective term, there are many levels of creative and really, who knows that creative really is?

Dictionary.com defines it as: "resulting from originality of thought, expression, imaginative". This could encompass anything, from music to design to visual imagery to creation and extends straight on through to passion. For me, creativity and passion are almost the same thing. I associate one with the other because in my own life, one cannot exist without the other. I know everyone expresses themselves in some way, I mean, it has to come out of you right? What use is creativity and passion if it doesn't come out of you somehow?

I'm not saying that people like accountants or doctors aren't creative. I happen to know a scientist who is very creative. I've also seen people in the creative arts who just follow their training and don't put their heart into the things that they create. Skill is very different from talent. Skill involves training, heck, give me a scalpel and 6 years of training and I'll be able to cut you open and take out....something and then sew you back up. If I don't put my heart into something, aren't I just going through the motions? Talent and passion equals a level of creativity that I search for, both in a partner and in myself.

I'm still searching for that elusive spark in someone that resounds within me, where my creative side finds its kindred spirit. I want to find an original, not a photocopy, someone to open my eyes to a different facet of an everyday thing and get me to appreciate it anew. One of my very favourite blog posts ever from Stuff Christians Like is the one where Acuff mentions that right after God ordains the priests of Israel in Exodus 31, He anoints the artists. Yay for creatives!!