the artist's dilemma050326
it is often i feel very untalented and a bit worthless.
i am told that this is the artist's dilemma. and yeah. i believe that is a nice way to put it. if you attempt to make something out of nothing there will always be this kind of dissonance, i think. between all of these great ideas that you have, that are there, but are seemingly implausable to put into any sort of physical medium.
there are always a lot of these ideas circling my head at once. some are frankly miserable and anxious; wether i will end up in some office job, dissatisfied, which begs the question in of itself why that is not enough: a lot of it is simply drabble. but i still have an inherent desire, a drive to get these things, these ideas out while they are still vivid. and it is a pain in the ass because i do not know how, or atleast how in a way that will satisfy this hunger. it is demanding. nothing is ever good enough.
i've never been very good with words. i like music because of that, as a whole. music kind of. communicates these feelings, experiences, memories, ideas, all in to one, and it's somewhat different for each person who hears it; it is the most,,, physical way to put these things, to get them out. it is an escape. an expulsion of all the shit in your head. and i like that, i think. but you can't seem to get there.
i don't know. i feel behind, really. behind in a world of fast moving things and telephone communications and an endless rush, it would seem. i like taking my time to think, but there is no time for that. i'm just ok at art. i've only just started with music and you want to be this child prodigy but you aren't. and it's hard. because, will you even get anywhere? isn't it all just a gamble, anyway? why did you have to be this way, this melting pot of everything at once and keeping it in isn't enough for you? and yet you can't do anything. you're paralyzed because it's never quite enough. it's never enough so why even bother.
i am told that the very best artists hate their work. maybe i am condemned to this perpetual loop of it not being good enough. depression will do that. i think i have the mind for it, but i can't seem to apply myself. i am paralyzed.
well. back to being trained to manufacture boxes, or whatever i might be doing. capitalism breeds innovation, doesn't it?