Sup mah home skillets *automatically loses three followers*
I promise I will get that pic for the mini crow put up! Boy is it cute. I just want to cuddle it. SNUGGLE SNUGGLE SNUGGLE.
Humor me for a moment: You know, I have always thought that my material was A-class material. Like, my stuff could be famous if more people looked at it. But now I realize that my stuff would be good and famous if I put more time and effort into it. If I tried honing my skills to perfection.
I'm using this as a segue into passion. Every person should have a subject they are passionate about. And they should strive to be the best they can at whatever they love. "Oh no! Somebody's better than me! What do I do, Xan??" (you say that in a high-pitched British accent) What do you do? I will tell you what you do: you don't compare to others. To look at your progress and you say "How can I make this better?" Here's where it gets complicated: if you simply can't find ways to improve, then look for outside inspiration. Do not look for someone to conquer or be envious of: let your style be influenced by other styles. For instance, if I write this poem about gorillas. I see absolutely nothing wrong about this poem. I describe gorillas going throughout their daily life. But I sense there is something missing. Or maybe I don't: maybe I'm just curious as to what else is out there. I look up some biology stuff on gorillas, and see that humans think we evolved from monkeys. Wow! I think. That could put an interesting spin on a poem about gorillas! So, you proceed:
The gorillas eat
and live in peace,
but soon to be man,
and to follow his fate,
chaos they will wreak.
Tada! Instant new po-em. Don't look at the work of others as something more or less than yours. One way to think about it is that our work is all one single moment in time. It is stagnant in its style, which is your very own. Instead of when you were ten and wrote this awful poem about flowers, and then your teacher read aloud a poem by Robert Frost and explained its hidden meanings and you thought to yourself "Good lord poetry is ridiculous. Why should I even try? This guy is way better than me," and you then synonymously gave up on it, think of your poetry as being the same poetry you have made in the future. If all our greatest work is present in all of our works from the beginning of our lives, then to stop working to better ourselves because we are discouraged is to erase the future and the present. Think about these implications on the future! Just kidding. My real point is that your work now represents work you will do, just as our present actions will affect our actions in the future. Capiche? Got it? It's so simple you wonder why you asked yourself "what the hell is this nut-job going on about? I ain't no major in time-science! Or is it string theory or something? Gosh, I have no time to fool around with these semantics!" SO if our work is static in time, then we should not be discouraged for the only way to go, if you try (and try hard) is upwards. To heaven. Just kidding; in your talents you will reach higher levels.
Jokes courtesy of MSPaintadventures.com
That's it really. I doubt anyone is still reading. I probably made a few heads hurt. Explaining ideas is harrrrrrd...
