Artist. Writer. Seeker of truth. Amplify the light.
What is it that won’t let you sleep at night? What is it that gnaws at the back of your mind? What is it that angers, frustrates or disheartens you?
none of that is the issue. that’s all noise, programs, the ideas of other people, the seeds of cultural norms and expectations… but none of it is your own voice.
“Your job is your side project.” A good perspective.
It’s a fairly common and repeating theme as we delve time and again into the creative life — or whatever we’re building, aspiring and moving toward — while we expend countless hours and energetic resources working a job to maintain a semblance of support for ourselves… and very likely a family.
The uphill battle is only ever our own figurative mountain. The dreams and aspirations that uncloak in childhood are closest to our hearts because life has yet to “get in the way”… Indeed.
In the Western world, we have learned to live with a complex web of constraints, the majority of which are cleverly disguised. Many of us have forgotten our childhood dreams by the time we reach adulthood, and we live a mostly functional, but quietly desperate, life.
