Once we learned about the idea of having a child’s eye, I began observing my surroundings. Over this past semester, I’ve realized that school had been hindering my child’s eye as I had such tunnel vision, focusing on work and getting done what needs to be done. During quarantine, this is where my child’s eye perspective really came into play. I have always been told I’m childish or that I think like a child and I saw this as a bad thing until I came into this class. During quarantine, I looked toward my 9 year old sister. She loved quarantine, it was so simple for her: she didn’t have to go to class and all of her siblings were home to play with her all the time. She asks me to play with her every day and she would come up with the weirdest games and the strangest things would pop into her mind. There were certain objects that she would pick up, assume what it was, and be wrong. This helped me to realize the power in not knowing and in having a child’s eye. I tested this out when me and my little sister wanted to make a projector to watch movies outside. We had everything we needed but nothing to hold up a phone. I grabbed a random toy on her floor and it worked perfectly. Without thinking about what it was, I looked at it for its use. It was a toy jump for her horse stable set. I think that having a child’s eye was once what came most naturally to me, but I have lost it slowly over time in the past couple years. I think that I need to work on embracing ambiguity. I am generally a patient person, but I like to know answers. I struggle with anxiety and the main thing that I have to try to accept with it is uncertainty. I think that I can practice embracing ambiguity more by telling myself that it doesn’t matter what happens because everything does work out the way it is supposed to. I think that overall, I learned a lot about myself in this course and how my flaws can actually become strengths and how ambiguity is actually okay. A child’s eye, embracing ambiguity, failing forward, and creative confidence are all things that I continue to work on in the future.
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