Arts and Otherelse

 

Art is considered an essential part of all cultures throughout the world. However, these days fewer and fewer people appreciate art and turn their focus to science, technology and business.

What could be done to encourage more people to take interest in arts?

 

In this fast phase world, everyone is moving quickly to keep up or to be above the average. We also prioritize. We live based on the needs that would make us survive in this world. Wants, which is more personal and somehow, deemed to be unnecessary is often put on hold, like ARTS.

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, the most basic need that have to be satisfied for humans are the physiological then next would-be security, love and belongingness, self-esteem and self-actualization. Physiological needs are the ones that makes us decide or act every day instinctively. We need shelter, clothes, foods, clean water and a place with good, air, sunlight and nature to thrive in this world. In order to achieve this, we need to earn, we need to work. We need to practice our profession, which in this modern world requires a more than basic knowledge about science, technology and business. We focus more on these fields because these are the sectors that includes our human body, our society and the industries that creates the products that we need to address our physiological needs. These are the intertwined cycles that should never be stopped or discontinued in any day of our lives. We need to be healthy and strong; we need to communicate; we need to always have the things that we discovered, promulgated and created out of needs. These cycles, most of the time, requires only the basic. And basic, most of the time, doesn’t include ARTS.

Now, how can we encourage people to take interest in arts? Include it within their needs, as possible as they can. Example: A healthy body needs a health mind. Mental Health. Art can be a form of therapy. It can be through music, dance, paintings, books or films. They can make you relax and clear your mind, a booster for the next days of challenges. We can also make use of art as a breaker to the monotony of our everyday routine. We can also bring natural elements to our technology through colour, shapes and materials that we call design. On the choices of clothes that we wear, to the celebration of important people and events, creation of products, to the building of teams, bonding of families and establishing livelihoods: inculcate ARTS. Be creative in execution. Add colour to the black and white of our response to needs.

Art may not be the most important in the ranking of necessities but still, it is the biggest in terms of providing opportunity for us to grow, learn, innovate, discover and create; to enhance our way of living and to find better solutions in all our issues in life.

If somebody ask you again, tell them, “In everything that you do, do it with style, with arts.  Let yourself be amazed. See and feel the difference. You might even say “Arts made me achieve the ultimate self-actualization in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs”