Is writing creative?

Yesterday, after working and permanently asking myself why I actually really work for this company, I went out to dinner with a good friend and she asked me if writing could be creative. I only could answer from my perspective and said that writing could be an active and creative process that might help to find a new Life-sense. But for this you have to be open and willing to inform yourself about something. And before that, I went on, you have to be interested in something. I got the respond that she is not interested in anything since a while and that it will be hard for her to write. (…)

When I met her almost 10 years ago, I never could have imagined to get this answer ever from her. She was so candid and intrigued of and in life that she deeply impressed me. She opened up for me so many ways of life and I discovered every minute and hour with her a new insight of myself. Now I’m still going ahead and meliorate and I would like to give her a better answer than this one I gave her. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t help her. When I was going home I realized that until she won’t find something by herself I wouldn’t be able to support her. She has to figure out everything on her own. I was a kind of desperate because I wanted to help in her process of finding herself again. I had to accept that I can only listen to her and try to be there for her.

Then she asked me if I ever wrote a journal? I said, that I did and that I still do. I proceeded that I started to write a dairy to express my own thoughts and feelings when I was 17. In the beginning, I said, I wrote about my agony and anguishes but later I started to write even about things I liked and now I made a step further and try to write small stories. I told her that I found it interesting to see how I developed throughout my writing and years. By now I like to read my old journal, my stories and I start to think about everything more holistic.

You never told me that you wrote a journal, she stated respectfully and asked me if she could read some of my entries. I answered that I never showed anybody my writings and that I started only two years ago to show them to somebody. But if she would like to I would love to show her some of my writings.

Unfortunately, we got the food and switched to another subject and had never come back to this matter during dinner.

But it stayed in my mind and I wanted to write about it …

Is that creative? Or only diversion?