To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #180       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         The muse shows up at your door everyday. It’s you who’s not in the mood.                     You are in the mood to change your life, but the mood to sit down and take the first step evades you.           You can always find enough reasons not to draw up your dreams. The morning is not behaving well. Sunday is not sundaying like it should. The lighting to sit down to write is not bright enough. The coffee has not delivered the holy spirit today. The water is not warm enough for a good bath to wash your sins from yesterday. The house help has spoiled your calm by asking for a raise. The news has killed your joy. The reels have killed your time. Updates from friends have busted your ego. Hell, even the tea has tanked your mood. And then you hold a grudge against the muse for not showing up today. And you choose to start tomorrow now, hoping for a new kind of awakening when you wake up.           Mood can never be creative fuel, the ignition for your dreams.           You can’t keep waiting for the muse to strike for then you will be on a long waiting list. But there is a smarter way, a Tatkal Sewa, if you may, to help yourself jump rows on that waiting list. It’s called showing up. When you open the door irrespective of the ‘mood’ you are in, the muse comes in like she owns the place.           As the muse walks in, she heads straight to your sacred space, gets into character and starts to seduce you. She doesn’t have to wait long before either you shed every bit of inhibition and join her for a day of amorous joy in manifesting her into words, pictures, colours, ideas, businesses, stories. The muse holds you by the hand, leads you to the dance floor and to salvation from your pain and drudgery. You have a choice – either to give in to the muse or to give up on joy, to be kissed by inspiration or be kicked by insinuation.           Creative energy and inspiration are always available on tap. It’s we who are moody, it’s we who disappear for months, sometimes years, sometimes an entire lifetime. It’s we who do not show up.           Keep the door open. Let the excuses walk out and the muse saunter in. The muse will happily settle in with you. No more waiting for the right mood.           Showing up then is not a mood but one hell of a solid, seductive move in the direction of a life you have always wanted.                       Privilege is not your fault. Wasting it is.                     Some of us are born in a palace, some on the street. Some of us are born into money, some into poverty. Some of us are born with a safety net. Some of us are born without a floor.           Maybe you were born into a certain surname, a passport, a network, an education, a body that works, a skin colour or a caste that opens doors before you even knock.           Sure, you didn’t earn that. You received it. And that really is not your fault.           Privilege is not your fault.           We live in times where privilege comes with a strange guilt. I don’t want to use my dad’s or partner’s money. I want to prove myself on my own. I don’t want anyone to say I had it easy.           Here’s the thing. No one out there is giving you a medal for making your life harder than it needs to be. There are people who wish they had your resources, your surname, your education, your passport. So if you have it, use it. The people who are struggling to raise capital or pay rent don’t need you to prove that you can suffer like them.           Privilege sitting in the corner doing nothing is not humility. It’s wasted grace.           It’s the gift of the universe being outright rejected because of your trauma that calls on you to prove yourself to the world when there’s no need to, when no one is even asking you to.           Privilege isn’t only a full bank account. There is privilege in having even one emotionally safe parent, having a body that mostly does what you ask of it, having the time to think about purpose, not just survival, speaking a language the world values, being born in a certain city, class, caste or country, having access to therapy, healing, coaches, books and retreats.           Privilege is not your fault but it is your responsibility. If you’ve had the privilege to heal, you now have the responsibility to help without hurting. If you already have seed money and you want to start a business, start it. If your family can fund your education, take it. If your network can open doors, knock. If you have time and health and support, use it.           The universe didn’t put a parachute on your back so you could argue whether you ‘deserve’ to jump. It gave you that parachute so you could leap further, create more, help people, feed families, build ideas that outlive you.           Privilege is not meant to make you feel ashamed. It’s meant to make you useful. You don’t honour privilege by denying it. You honour it by multiplying it.           In the language of sewa, privilege is simply another word for ‘resources life has trusted you with’. Sewa is how you show you were worthy of that trust.           You are a child of the universe. Some children are handed seeds, some are handed soil, some are handed water, some are handed sunlight. Your job is not to apologise for being given sunlight. Everyone’s job is to grow a garden and your job is to bring the sunlight to the table. Don’t go looking for seeds.           Use your privilege boldly, humbly, in service. That is how you say thank you to life.             Our upcoming retreats                         Mandi Last 2 Seats Left 4th to 10th March     Mandi’s tranquil environment serves as the perfect backdrop for personal metamorphosis, ensuring you return home with a revitalised spirit and fresh perspective of life!   More details     Reignite conversation     Bhimtal Registrations Open 10th to 16th May     Bhimtal offers a rare kind of Kumaoni serenity. This landscape creates the perfect setting for inner work, allowing reflection to unfold naturally.   More details     Reignite conversation     Mandi Registrations Open 14th to 20th June     Mandi in summer is a calm escapade. Cool mountain air, green slopes, and quiet mornings create space to breath, rejuvenate and slow down.   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Kasauli April 2024                         Experience a life full of purpose                     The purpose of my life is to bring joy to the world by unravelling its stories.   Raman Adlakha Nainital, December 2021         My purpose is to create a spark in people’s minds through culinary experiences and also support the underprivileged.   Sathya Vishwanathan Nainital, May 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                           Mantra Gold Coatings & The White Paper Creative         Sunita Somani         Pedal On               View Our Collabs for Joy                   creativegarh.com             You are receiving this newsletter because either you have subscribed to it through our website, interacted with us by filling an invite form or because you have asked us to put you on the database. 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