Don’t you wish that all the hurdles you had to cross in life looked like this – or at the very least, a variation on this?
I know some of you are probably thinking, Not really. Hardships build character. They make us into interesting people.
But if all the hurdles in life were as lovely as these, then it stands to reason that our world might be a very different place.
I’ve started working towards a new career – in the creative sphere of all places. Often, I find myself questioning what I’m doing and the point of it all. I remind myself time and again all the reasons why it’s a bad idea.
The market is flooded with art.
AI is being trained to create art.
Artists have notoriously been undervalued in almost every culture. Getting a rich patron has been the best way to secure one’s future in the art world even though having said patron means limiting creative freedom.
People don’t want to pay for art when taking a photo of it or holding down two buttons and taking a screen shot have become a natural reflex.
Those are just a few.
I am well aware of the fact that I will never become rich doing this. I remind myself, though, that I was never really interested in money. Never had aspirations of becoming wealthy. So doing this is because I find joy in it; I wake up energized and eager to write, paint or illustrate.
But even ramen costs money so don’t I wish the path was a little less rocky? Sure.
Don’t I wish success wasn’t tied to social media and its multitude of horrors – the number of followers and how many likes or views a post has garnered? AB-solutely!
However, that is not the world in which we live, and no amount of wishing on my part could make it so. As someone who’s also in the creative field told me recently, if you want to catch the best wave, you have to be in the ocean, ready to surf. So I just keep creating.
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It is the art that leaves its mark in cultures long gone that help in our understanding of our past.
Love this ” if you want to catch the best wave, you have to be in the ocean, ready to surf.”