Maybe they were being creative? Or just evasive?

Why everyone evades the actual question makes sense. I mean, I don't know what creativity is. Can you define it without refering to past critics, literates and philosophers?

And I may think I'm creative, but someone else might have a different opinion to creativity I proclaim to have. Who wants to be flamed on a public forum?

(Alright. Maybe this whole self-assuming thing is cultural or maybe I'm taking it too far.)

Who wants to stand up and yell, "I'm creative", which implicitly means to some over-sensitive argumentative people, "Nenenene. You lot are just boring sticks-in-the-mud squares"? I know I wouldn't. Maybe other people have the same sense of self-preservation. And anyone who does the opposite can be construed as trying to hard to be different, or just debating for the sheer pleasure of being obnoxious.

I mean, I'm creative no? I run a public blog, which I design myself. I write poetry. Some prose. I can draw (or used to be able to) and those little cute designs were pretty damn popular and became my trademark of sorts. I love colours. I can match colours. I dress flamboyantly. I love the arts. I make my own journals. I sew. I design well enough that people nod their heads in approval.

But hey, a blog? Lots of people do blogs. Lots of people write poetry. But are they good poets? Does writing poetry automatically qualify you for a creative status? No. I could be imitating some poet's style, who in turn borrowed from someone else. I think outside the box, but look around there are lots of people who do. And they sometimes think outside a box and fail to see that they are "creative" enough to think of a different box. But it is still a box. Or maybe a tin. Or some other sort of container.

What is wrong with conforming? We need people who conform, create a society with rules so that it can exist to be broken by people following the trend to be "different".

So yes. Creativity? I think I am creative. But who wants to say it? If you have to give yourself a label, it is highly possible that you are not what your label reads.