What is more important creativity or execution?

I am an extremely imaginative and visual person, till date I have come up with:

An app idea (completely on paper) that will help people connect with other like minded people from all around the world.

All I need is technical help in developing the app.

I have written a few pieces for a bi-weekly column about a fictional character that is largely based on my life and my interactions with people around me.

Now all I need is a platform, a platform to publish the column and continue the storyline.

It always comes down to, now all I need is…

Which brings me to an important question, what is more important, vision or technicality?

What is the point of having a great app idea when it’s not going to be created or what is the point of penning down the column if it’s never going to be published anywhere?

The point is to always be involved in the process of creation. The process of creation is different from the process of selling your creation or converting it into tangible form.

The process of creation is intangible, it cannot be seen or touched, although it can be felt. The process of creation is similar to lifting weights or running, you are flexing your mental muscles, when you imagine the characters of your story talking to each other animately, when you think of all the little elements that will go into your app idea, where will the push buttons be, what will the interface look like, when you think of how the mauve vase will compliment the lilac photo frame in your room, you are creating, you are in the process of creation.

This process of creation gives me a high, I am so lost in my imaginative world that sometimes reality seems too dull to me and going through the technicality of converting that dream into reality appears to be an extremely tedious process.

What do I do then?

I ask myself, how badly do I want it? Which idea or product of my creativity do I feel extremely proud of, so proud that I have to put it out there for the world to see?

It’s like when your toddler is smiling so adorably that you need to click a photo and send it to everybody because it would be remiss of you to not share such cuteness with the world or when you are having an extremely good hair day and you want to hang out with people because you feel so beautiful and confident.

Which idea or piece of creation do you have that makes you feel like that? Feel like sharing, feel like being seen.

Put all your weight behind it and go through the technical stuff because you know that apart from being cute as hell, your child also weeps till two in the morning and poops on you, but in the end the smiling selfie that got three hundred likes on Facebook is worth it.

As for me, I have put the app idea on the back burner for a while and I am working on publishing the bi-weekly column either on medium or on a separate blog. I’m still to figure out the tech aspect of it all, but you know what every time I read and re-read the column, I feel extremely proud of it and I want the world to look at this child of mine and admire it.