Day 285: Building Muscle

I'm building tough skin or muscle when it comes to my professional life. I've learned to love what I create no matter what people say. I've also learned that we all get used and that oddly, all things do work out in our favor. I've learned that you should never try to prove your dreams to anyone. You should know what you want, and if people ask you what you are doing you can show them. Physical evidence is always the best explanation. Because just like art, people will interpret what they want from what they see.

I type all of this today to say that I used to spend a lot of time explaining to people what I was doing. When really it only matters if I understand what I am doing. Because at the end of the day, I must live with my results good and bad. Its cool though to live with what you have created, instead of waiting for someone else's approval or dis approval. When it comes to making money from your art, that's an art too. People like what they like, and when it comes to commerce they may like what you don't even deem important.

I say all of this to say that I have built muscle in my 5 months from work in regard to my art. A muscle that I thought already existed, but it did not. Its not a shield, its more like a cold reality, its more like the strength of my legs to walk. I now have muscle to create and get to where I am going in real time, instead of only in my dreams.

I am happy.

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