Never Look Outside Yourself.

If you look outside yourself for others to validate a creative fire they can’t even see, you’re setting yourself up for an impossible situation. One that is very unfair to yourself, the world and the purpose you’ve found.

It would be like falling in love with a song or painting (one that you listened or looked at every day to find your bliss) and then looking for others to feel the exact same about it. To validate the same very personal feeling you have.

And then if someone else (who maybe couldn’t even hear the music) said they didn’t like the song, how crazy would it be for you to think the song might not be as beautiful as you thought it was?

Maybe they needed to hear it in a different environment? With better speakers?

Maybe it would help if you told them first why it was so special to you?

Maybe the very next person might think its the greatest song ever written?

None of that matters.

All that matters is to you, that song is how you find your way through the darkness.