Dear reader,

From a young age I was taught that you can make a profit of anything even creative endeavors you like doing like art. And to me at first that was pretty exciting because I had many different art ideas and talents such as writing, making jewelry especially making bracelets and drawing sometimes sketches and pen portraits but mainly digitally. And when I was younger I would be trying to find ways to sell them to promote them alas they would fell.

Because most of than not I would get bored of trying to promote my content or trying to even make my content because it started feeling like a chore. Not something I wanted to do anymore something I had to do. So the once fun thing I was doing making my art just became another chore off of a to do list to get done.

“Oh I just gotta post today cause I made a schedule saying I would.” Or “I just gotta make art even though I’m tired.” Or “I gotta make money I gotta my family would stop talking about it.”

What was once insightful suggestions became a consistent nag. Every other comment would be how I was going to make money over what I was doing because other than that what was the point. And that ideas ladies and gentleman and non-binary pals is a bleak idea.

You shouldn’t do art because you have to, you shouldn’t do art because your forced to, you shouldn’t do art because it’ll make you money (unless you want to lmao not stopping you just shouldn’t be your only reason that gets old real fast). You should do art because it makes you feel alive again that’s why. You should do art because it makes you happy. You should do art because it fills your soul to create to make something meaningful, or beautiful, or even cringe.

Creating art expresses life it expresses emotions it expresses who you are I mean of course it’s not your identity but it expresses a part of you that words themselves can’t express. So if anyone’s reading this just take a minute to find why you starting creating in the first place. Whether it be dancing, making video content, or painting.

Whatever it is whatever the hobby take a moment to ask why you started and how it made you feel before views, before likes, before you even knew that you could sell it. Ask yourself these three things when was the last time you felt alive or just like a kid again? Two did expressing yourself through art make you feel alive? And three to not only create but to do something just for you?

Kind regards,

Ace Vee