Hello, and welcome to my weekly newsletter! I'm thrilled you were able to be there. Every day I keep my Zap Pad with me and jot down everything I learned this week or thought was interesting. On Mondays, I review my top 5 entries and write about them in order to share what I learned. It's what I refer to as "Muse Monday."
Life Isn't Meant For Comfort
When life gets hard, remember that life isn't meant to be easy. Were you born to live the good life and sleep under your sheets forever? No, we are meant to experience life to the fullest, which involves the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, the comfy and the uncomfortable. Life is a journey of learning and growing, which often involves hardship; it's how we use these experiences that make our lives meaningful.
Bad Habits And Creativity
The reason kids are so creative is that they haven't learned bad habits like caring what others think about their art. We grow up and start to limit our potential to fit in. Our creativity is stifled by our own fears of judgment and failure. However, it is important to remember that art should come from a place of passion, not fear. It is important to take risks and break through the barriers we have created for ourselves. To be a kid again is to not care what others think.
Can Artists Be Happy?
To be an artist is to not be satisfied. Artists often believe that their work is never good enough. But if art comes from a place of hardship, if an artist loses that and becomes happy, will they lose their art? What makes their art so beautiful is the very meaning of expressing pain; without that, what do they have? Will an artist ever truly be satisfied with their work? I don't think so, but that does not mean they can't love the work they do. There is a lesson we can all learn from that, and that's loving the prose and respecting yourself for the work. You may not love the work, but it's your work, and that's something to be proud of.
People Don't Want Art
If history has taught us anything, it's that the world is a horrible critic. Unique ideas are always criticized in the beginning, and that's because people don't really care about art, creativity, or amazing ideas until they need them. No one cares about poetry until they lose a loved one and understand that someone else has felt that way. And right now, that means everything to them as well. Don't be afraid to be hated for your creativity and the way you express yourself because people don't care until they do.
What You Don't Know
Enlightened people talk about what they know, and curious people talk about what they don't know. It is important not to get stuck in our own heads. I think we live in a world where we are too afraid to learn about the things we don't agree with out of fear of being wrong, but that's what separates a lifelong learner from everyone else. Talking about what we don't know opens us up to new ideas and perspectives, which can help us grow as individuals. We must strive to learn more so that we can better understand ourselves and the world around us.
Question of the week: What makes art (or any form of self-expression) beautiful?
Leave a comment and let me know your answer, or just let me know what you thought of this week's Muse Monday. I'm Ace; I hope I have served you well, and thanks for reading.