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I was first traumatized at age 13-14. Since then I have tried to live. However every time I have tried to become the person I felt inside I have been discouraged. Artist: told I could not make certain things. Poet: to dark or destructive, and could not make money. Leader in workforce: to nice and not well spoken. Soldier: to much baggage. Etc. Now I feel like I have no worth and am a loser. Now what do You suggest?(Aimed at all the people that molded me into doubt)
My art....my every changing avi's. This one fits pretty well. I cycle through them as feeling change.
But Wall-E is also a good fit for me. Like the little broken AI, looking for the right pieces to fit, some need alterations to work, making me work.
Thing is, wherever you go, there you are. No getting around it. As long as I was existentially doomed to that fact, I figured I might as well start embracing my consistency at the very least.
Ever meet a happy, satisfied poet???
Don't things because people say you should- do it because they say you can't! Or, just because you WANT to! : D
It's great how you go way back with him.
But that doesn't mean they get to be in charge of what you do with those statements.
Coming from an artist who writes, myself. There is no too dark, or impossible to make. The most discouraging are usually the ones who haven't been able to achieve greatness themselves. Engage in those who embrace you. There is no "never" in creativity, there is only "not yet."
Those that can...create
Those that can't ...critique.
many times just because that's all they can do.
Old art teacher said to me...After I destroyed a painting of her.