Are Our Ideas Are Own?

 

 

 

I often feel that my writing come out as I start the piece itself. A moment ago I had absolutely no idea of what topic I wanted to discuss today. I still have no idea. So I guess I will talk about ideas.

I have always been curious how the human mind works, curious to the point of taking human phycology 101. It was never explained to me where our ideas come from or how we come up with them. I know it is said that need it the cause of invention so I have always believed to a point that we developed things (for lack of a better word) to help us work more efficiently. But that still does not tell me where ideas come from.

The other day I had a knitting project idea, but it was not really my idea. It was someone else’s but I could modify it for my own purposes. So that leads me to think that we often get ideas from other. Is that stealing? Yes, I think it is if no credit is given to the owner of the original idea. Now that brings me to original. Do we have any more original ideas?

Let’s look at the love song. It has been said thousands of different ways in music from a soft ballad to the raunchiest of lyrics and yet we still write more and more and more songs about love and of course heart break. The ideas for musical compositions are original for the most part and are from the creative mind of the artist. So that leaves me thinking about other types of creativity such as knitting, sewing, and other forms of crafts Are the3wse really that creative and are the ideas original and who thought of them first.

 

We have all been to the craft shows with booth upon booth of baby bibs and cute dresses in pastel colours with the next booth being the candles in a glass and it looks like beer or the beaded jewelry and so on. These folks have put some time in their craft and I take nothing away from that. I just want to know who had the original idea because if we have multiple people with similar crafts at every booth we know the ideas are not their own even though they may have a slight twist or have a modified variation to the booth beside them. So do we pass on ideas to each other and do we have the right to own them?

Of course we pass on ideas to each other we would be a stagnant world if we did not communicate our ideas through our thoughts and voice. But do we have a right to own those ideas if they are not our original ideas, ideas that belong strictly to oneself? I would say no we do not have that right. We need to give credit. Just as I gave credit to the woman whom I got the knitting idea from she must give credit to where she got the idea. If it is hers then please take the credit. But all that being said do we really want to give up that ego trip when some says” Aren’t you creative.” No we do not. So I sit in my dilemma and hold my question out there for feedback…Where do ideas come from in our minds are they ours or have we gathered them from somewhere or someone else???

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