Good and Bad, Mostly Bad, Ways to Fill Your Empty Soul: #14 Blackmail

Blackmail

What it Entails:

What it Entails:

You’ve realized that you enjoy photography… but you’re not any good at it. At least not in the artistic way that you always thought that you would be. Still, you’ve told your friends, you have a nice camera, and you have the outfit

You are invested.

What to do?

Monetize your failed hobby.

How?

Incriminating photos.

Is it respectable?

No, but that’s okay, you lost respect for yourself when you realized you take terrible pictures. It’s time to double down on your lie, extort people for money, and claim that you fund yourself through extremely profitable, but discreet, gallery openings.

Pros:

1. Cash, wet with someone’s tears, heartbreak and broken dreams, but cash.

2. You can keep living your lie.

3. Dovetails nicely with photography.

Cons:

1. You will be that creepy person in the bushes, like a less likeable version of the paparazzi.

2. In addition to being creepy, it’s also illegal, and you probably don’t look good in orange.

3. Your soul will wither and die inside you.