Getting lost in the labyrinth of Balat, the colorful laundry fluttering overhead looked like festival banners. In a corner of a cracked stone wall, a young boy was absorbed in drawing something. To an adult, it might have been mere scribbles, but in his eyes, a new “meaning”—one no one had seen yet—seemed to be reflected.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
―Pablo Picasso
Turning the Everyday into Gold
In our childhood, before “understanding” the world, we “generated” it with our own colors. Raindrops were jewels, shadows were unknown monsters, and a simple stick was a magic wand.
As we grow up, we often confine ourselves within the frameworks of social “norms,” seeing the world only through predefined labels. Yet, what Picasso challenged us to do was to loosen those rigid “norms” for a moment and have the courage to vividly reinterpret the world once again.
When you find a new light on your familiar commute today, or reframe a failure as an “interesting pattern” of your own making, your inner child wakes up and picks up the brush once more. To sense the world not as a mere collection of facts, but as an “unfinished canvas” where you can breathe in new value at will—that intellectual playfulness is exactly what transforms your everyday into vivid gold.
