I came across a quote from The School of Life that stayed with me:

“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”

It made me think about artists — and about what happens when we are stuck not making art, or stay too long inside the safe, predictable routines we’ve built around our creativity (and our lives).

Rattling the bars isn’t about being loud or reckless.

It’s about becoming more alive — and letting that aliveness flow into everything you touch.

Sometimes it looks like starting to make art again after years of silence. Sometimes it looks like trying something that terrifies you — a whole new art form, a bigger scale, a wilder form of expression.

Sometimes it’s not about art at all. It’s about saying yes to life: taking a risk, meeting a stranger’s eye, laughing more loudly, being fully, vulnerably present.

When we create, when we say yes to life, we become more interesting — not because we’re putting on a show, but because we’re more awake inside ourselves.

Your creativity isn’t a side project.

It’s the engine of your aliveness.
And your aliveness is what makes you unforgettable.

If you’re feeling restless, stuck, or invisible, it’s not because you’re doing anything wrong, or that anything is missing.

It might just mean it’s time to rattle the bars a little.