Dear @therealpaul it sounds like you're having fun and doing what you love, good for you, man!
I agree with what you say about redefining success--for me, as an artist, it means deepening my hunger, while refining my appetite.
So, even though I'm hardly ever on the trending page and, 4 months into the Steemit game, and make less than a dollar on some days, I still feel successful and true to my art :)
Wishing you continued success on your terms. Below, are 2 quotes I greatly admire, and which echo the sentiment of your post:
Do what you do more as play than as work, which does not mean that it is not serious ... That is the real tragedy of war and weapons: the tragic false seriousness. —Thomas Merton, Letters
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.' Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Thanks for sharing those- it does seem like the idea of war is the main thing that has demanded that we grow up, or outgrow play, maybe so that we as a society can more easily be taught the opposite of play; depression.
You shared a quote once, but I don't remember the author, about how creative adults are those who 'survived childhood'. That stuck with me, and I thought of it while I wrote this post, and feel like such a survivor often.
Wow, good memory, Paul, I suppose it’s easier to remember the things that speak (to) us:
May we never outgrow play, or truly learn society’s dark lesson of war.
Speaking of peace and healing, you might enjoy a fine poem I posted, yesterday, by Derek Walcott: Love After Love
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