I'm sitting here, on a Thursday with my cup of mildly sweetened coffee with foamed milk on top, really considering my issues with consistency and worth as an artist. It happens daily, and nearly every month I sail by without a sale (yes, it's okay to roll your eyes at my lame play on words). I've noticed a very obvious trend in my works, and it's something I think every artist, seasoned or new, must be motivated to understand: You have to believe in yourself before anyone else does; and even as I sit here and type that out, there's no guarantee that I'm going to improve this month in showing someone new my art and confidently saying, "YES, I created this." There's no promise that I'm going to be able to say that I have the talent to recreate anything I've done on the computer on a canvas for a potential buyer.
This blog post, my friends and dearest readers, isn't to throw a pity party! Because while I do have my inner negative thoughts, so does everyone else, and my goal in voicing them is to allow any potential readers to understand that if you are a creative, you're not alone in these negative nuances of thought. They happen, and often... to so many people. Yes, it's going to suck when you try to achieve something and then maybe feel like you're falling or have fallen short. There are people, I believe, who are far more talented than me, that think I've achieved something amazing because I have a website and write these things that may or may not have someone read it in passing!
This is not to say that that's not an achievement of some kind, but what I am saying is that it's just a start to something that you can make for yourself. Sit there today, at your job, career, home, apartment, coffee shop, WHATEVER, and think about it.
What do you want? And how do you want to get it? It's not unattainable, you just need to apply some critical thinking and hard work. People who are living your dream had the dream you once had, with the same doubts you had, sitting in the same position you were; the only difference is that they didn't commit to giving up.
Would you like to commit to giving up? Or would you prefer to grab ahold of what you want with both hands and start pulling? Stop giving up, punk ass. It'll be okay. Even if it isn't right now, it will be. This is me talking to you as much as it is talking to myself.
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