I'm certainly not the first to say this
but there's a sort of Murphy's Law
when it comes to artists
If you pour your heart and soul into something
spend hours to make it as perfect as you can possibly muster
you cry while writing or drawing or rehearing or what-have-you
and you truly feel like this might be the thing you'll be remembered for
(just like Ed Wood, but I digress)
That heartfelt thing you made
gets very few views, a small audience, and hardly any reaction
whereas some frivolous thing
you came up with in less than five minutes
or something you meant to just be a short silly otherwise unnoticed thing
That is the thing that gets beloved
and it's lovely to have something of yours loved
but you can't help but find yourself thinking
"Wait, you love THAT?
What about this thing I wretched every bit of energy for?
This thing that I managed to encapsulate my heart in?
What about that one?
Of all the things I made THAT is what took your attention?"
And the audience says,
"Yep!"
but there's a sort of Murphy's Law
when it comes to artists
If you pour your heart and soul into something
spend hours to make it as perfect as you can possibly muster
you cry while writing or drawing or rehearing or what-have-you
and you truly feel like this might be the thing you'll be remembered for
(just like Ed Wood, but I digress)
That heartfelt thing you made
gets very few views, a small audience, and hardly any reaction
whereas some frivolous thing
you came up with in less than five minutes
or something you meant to just be a short silly otherwise unnoticed thing
That is the thing that gets beloved
and it's lovely to have something of yours loved
but you can't help but find yourself thinking
"Wait, you love THAT?
What about this thing I wretched every bit of energy for?
This thing that I managed to encapsulate my heart in?
What about that one?
Of all the things I made THAT is what took your attention?"
And the audience says,
"Yep!"
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