Perfection

October 20, 2020

Q: What could I do now, if anything, to pursue creativity?

A: Trust in the labor of doing nothing, for inactivity can recharge and strengthen resolve for when your art’s purpose and motivation is challenged and called into question. Ask every possible question of yourself now so that you are clear on your intention and drives and desires and what purposes you wish your work to serve. That way when the time comes for the world to see your work you won’t pause in your stride when haters hate or people try to plant seeds of doubt, for you will have already faced the toughest criticism and introspection from yourself and your work will not lose momentum but only gain more ground as others wonder where it came from. Love your personal story, your unique path, your friends, and supportive team. Trust the perfect timing of what will be. Be ready, grow on silently until the mask is taken off and your work revealed. You can be ready. Continue to write and listen and write and talk it out. Believe the truest sense of perfection is not being without mistakes but rather trying your best, giving of your truest self, loving from the deepest parts of you, and continuing to persevere in both quiet and storm with a calm assurance in the Master of the storms in life. Inactivity can be a good friend in that it helps you gather information, contemplate, form ideas, test them out, refine them, and figure out how to best tell the meat of the truth in the story—your story—and share openly and without reservation. You can be what it is to be true art—art that inspires, that makes one question, think, motivate them to action, nudge them to put into play that seed of truth and watch it blossom into every widening choices for the better. You can be a part of that.