In this week’s readings, we learned a lot about inspiration. People can pull inspiration for anything from anything. The idea of originality came up in last week’s discussion, and the questions was “is anything original anymore?” This is a hard concept to think about, because people are inspired by their world, whether they know it or not. So maybe they think their idea is unique and original, but subconsciously, it was inspired by something they saw. That being said, being inspired does not mean your work is unoriginal. I think the idea behind originality is a hard concept to grasp. But one take away that I really enjoyed from this week’s reading was that if you light one candle with another candle, neither of their flames are dulled. Meaning if you take inspiration from something, that is not taking away from that thing’s value, or your something’s value.
