Create.A good friend of mine recently confided that she was giving up on her dream. Her creative love. This hurt to hear as she is incredibly talented and leaves you in awe when she shares. She said it was too expensive and that she was starting to think it wasn't worth going after. She believed she would never be famous or ever be good enough to receive a profit from it. Her face filled with sadness and defeat as she told me. Her heart crushed. I didn’t accept this conclusion. I told her I didn’t agree. We don’t create because we want to be the best or because we want to be rich and famous. We create because it’s what we love to do! Because it makes our souls happy. Who cares if you have one fan or twenty million. It doesn’t matter. We live for ourselves period. I told her a story from the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert about a forty year old woman who had reached a moment where she couldn't remember the last time she was truly happy. After thinking on it and playing through her years she found that it was when she was in her youth and was figure skating. So, she started again. Not with the intention of going to the Olympics but with the intention of doing what she loved. To be happy and find peace again. We hold ourselves back because we think we’re not good enough or we think someone will laugh at us and an endless amount of other reasons. I say again. WHO CARES. Do what you love and do it for yourselves. As for the book... I can't recommend it enough. It left me feeling excited about what I could do. Excited to try again. It made me realize all the ways I hold myself back because of my own assumptions of how it will end or how it will be received. I'm a work in progress and Elizabeth Gilbert felt like that always supportive friend telling you to go for it. To be better and at least try. To which the nerd in me responds wholeheartedly with "Do. Or do not. There is no try." But it's the same thing. Just do it and feel better, rather than dwelling on the shoulds, coulds, and what ifs. My great grandmother used to say... "Take all those what ifs and bury them in the back yard. You don't need them." So get your shovels. I might need a field though. - N shop this post
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