Day 396 || creativity discouragers

Make Your Damn Bed · Mar 17, 2022 · 8m

I don’t think there is any industry that people discourage more immediately and blindly than they do of anyone pursuing a life in the arts.

People are happy to tell you how hard it is - but they’ve never tried. They claim safer industries and careers and condescendingly claim to admire your passion while silently offering fearful judgements and thinly veiled disappointment in you.

Being someone who has chased both a “safe” and a “risky” career - I can honestly say - art is an admirable field partially because of all the doubt we face. But it’s not as impossible as people make it out to be…