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but I am going to spend as much time as I can creating delightful things out of my existence, because that’s what brings me awake and that’s what brings me alive.
No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that—merely by being here—you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own.
Your art not only doesn’t have to be original, in other words; it also doesn’t have to be important.
Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.
Be careful about safeguarding your future—but also about safeguarding your sanity.
I think it’s a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe.
It doesn’t discourage me in the least, in other words, to know that my life’s work is arguably useless. All it does is make me want to play.
And then go deep within that space—as far in as you can possibly go—and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It’s nobody’s business but your own.
