The feeling of absolute freedom; loving what you are doing and not caring one bit of what others opinion is of you! So why not live your own adventure?
As an artist, people seem to feel the need to continually ask me, “are you making any money?” I am certain that they wouldn’t ask this question to any other random person that they encountered on the street…..Nonetheless, I started contemplating why they were intrigued?
The answer was quiet simple, Joseph Campbell always said, “follow your bliss” and on a deeper subconscious level, the individual’s question was more based on the need to understand, “how are you following your bliss?” versus, “how much are you earning in order to be able to do what you love?”…..
The people that were intrigued with what I was doing, were more interested in knowing my absolute freedom, yet they were equating freedom with money!
What most are not understanding is that, freedom is a state of mind and a state of being! Most people have a lot of money and yet are still bound by their daily struggles of living!
No-one can give you your freedom, only you can! And for me, freedom is being able to live a life without boundaries, free of the good opinion of others, being able to do what I want to do when I want to do it! To me, this is success!
In living and doing that which I love, I have fulfilled my reason for being, for doing, for living, my higher purpose..... and this is what most individuals are wanting to understand. When I am painting, in the studio or outdoors, I rarely think about what I look like to the external world, in fact sometimes I tend to stick out my tongue, I dance, I tend to stare and most of the time I end up with paint in my face…..this is my “bliss”!
Thus when I received the question, “are you making any money as an artist?”, my cheeky answer, “enough to make people like you wonder how much!”
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Until next time, .......CREATE.PAINT.BE YOU