Liked or not - Let's Create!

 

We take the time to picture our works, upload them online onto our website or social media and take the effort to  work on the aesthetics of the post to ensure that the viewer is intrigued. All of this happens with sense of anxiety in us, for the post to be likeable. The post is uploaded in an urgency, as though something would happen, if it doesn’t go online right this moment, like we would miss a spot. What happens right after that. Do we hit refresh for the next couple minutes, to check if someone has hit like or has commented on our post? Is this our evaluation on our work.

 

 

The anxiety is inevitable. The wait for a response seems to be grave. In today’s world where we are not able to wait until a website loads or enjoy the silence in between the lines, in a song or go through with an advertisement without hitting skip. We seem to be in a hurry, in a rush, always waiting for the next big thing to hit us.

 

 

As a creator, patience is an inevitable requirement. We have to wait for the paint to dry, the layers to build, until we can see the magic that we can create.

 

 

For me, focusing on the why, helps me emphasize on the art. I create for myself. I create to free myself of all that I hold so close to me. However, that always does not happen. Every now and then, while in the middle of a piece, I do step back to check if it is appealingly acceptable. Acceptable to what standards? To the world or to me? To move past that state, I have to hard push the thought aside and continue to work.

 

 

At the end of the day, I do not stop until I am convinced that I have done my best. How about you?