"As artists, we are free to abandon society’s directions for “correct”
living. We are free to define ourselves. So when market forces
threaten our image of who we are as artists (we can’t sell our novel,
our poems are rejected repeatedly, our friends are forging ahead while
we languish in rejection), we can abide by our culture’s estimation of
our gifts, decide we are not worthy and suffer envy, or we can refocus
the lens, redefine the terms. Define success for yourself. Recognize
your talent, without placing it on a ladder of worst to best. You are
where you are, and that’s OK. Visualize creativity as a river that flows
to the sea, lifts to the sky in clouds, falls to earth in rain, and
down to the sea again in rivers. An endless and nourishing cycle that we
flow with- not a pile of rocks that gets handed out one by one until
there is nothing left for those still standing in line. You are not in
line for your chance at happiness- you are a part of the cycle of
creative spirit, already immersed." --Sara Stockden
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