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22nd January, 2023
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by holly brewer
70 blocks • about 1 month ago
how to [be] an artist.
by nyeneplu is here
36 blocks • 5 months ago

My last mistake is thinking that the goal will fix everything. Like, once I reach my goal, it would fix me. It would rid me of all my self loathing and I will be magically cured. The problem with goal-first mentality means that you are putting off happiness until you hit your milestone. "There is no goal. The goal will never make you happy. All we have is today and the happiness you feel in it. There is no success or failure. You are the only one who can make failure feel like a failure."

When I saw this, I had to stop, I was like "whoa". This is the reminder of the decade, because I am constantly under this illusion that a goal and reaching that goal will make me happy forever. But every goal that I reached, when I did it, it did make me happy. It was a climax, but a very short climax... How many millions do I have to chase in order to be happy?

It's important to fall in love with the process, not the product. So that way, you can be happy now. Goals and direction are important, but don't think that it's going to make you happy forever. My pro-tip is to give yourself permission to be happy now. And happiness is an inside job. Only you can make yourself happy, and if you don't know how to make yourself happy now and you don't know why you're not happy, then no goal, abstract goal or tangible goal, is going to fix that need.

— Jenn Im

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I think that you have to be willing to be in a state of embarrassment and cringe in order to write a lot. There is no other way. Self enjoyment is embarrassing.
-ALICESPARKLYKAT

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by minjie —
53 blocks • 3 days ago
seeing feeling thinking being
by Gem Murray
135 blocks • 12 days ago

Everybody in their lives is really waiting for people to ask them questions, so that they can be truthful about who they are and how they became what they are.

Marc Pachter

how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.

composed
by Eseoghene Art
5 blocks • 5 months ago
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