Day Three Hundred and Eight: Thrills and Skillz
One thing about being an artist
that always gets to me is the confidence that your work is good enough. Is my work good enough? Is my talent enough to carry me through? Do I even want to be an artist and dependent
on my talent and creativity? I’ve been
having numerous conversations with people lately about the nature of
independent creativity and if it is enough.
Will my talent ever make up for my lack of confidence? I just don’t have any of the answers. Is it okay to rely on yourself? Is that…okay?
I’ve been so concerned about the
unknown future ahead of me, where and what am I going to be/doing this time
next year? I saw a quotation recently
that really got to me:
“You can’t swim across the ocean without losing sight of the shore.”
I’ve recently just thrown my will to the wind. I am not going to worry too much about the
future because I know whatever it is is going to be awesome and exciting and an
adventure, and I need this. I need to
lose myself in order to understand what it is I need to be doing.
It will become clear, right?
So as for my creativity, my muse, my inspirations, my writing I want to
trust in it but have a hard time being confident in it. Talent isn’t constant, as much as we convince
ourselves that it is, but as long as you are passionate you will end up where
you need to be. What needs to happen in
my own realm of creativity is a change of heart. I need to nurture this creativity instead of
second guessing it. In talent we trust.
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