>>3635199I guess I just wanted to make you feel less alone, because you made me feel less alone by airing your feelings. You took the words out of my mouth, really. Maybe that all sounds dumb. But I agree that we should try and find some joy in our works. I don't know about you, but doing some creative or productive is one of the few things I actually enjoy or makes life worth living (or at least, bearable), and I guess that's why I wouldn't either of us to give up on it.
It's certainty hard though when you have that constant paranoia and anxiety, though, and I think that that sometimes overtakes whatever positive thoughts you may have had in the first place regarding your goals. I suppose that it's important to not lose sight of what you were passionate about in the first place.
Perfection is always going to be just out of our grasps, no matter how hard we try, or even how much somebody else might like what we've done. Just like somebody trying to cheer us up, praise always sounds hollow and condescending when we can so easily see all of our obvious flaws, right? I don't know if I would like to 'spite' the world, though, just accepted by it. Perhaps that's a little unrealistic. But I guess we've both come to the same conclusion of slugging through all of our self-doubts and worries should be a priority; it might be the only small amount of control we have in this world. And if the world is already harsh enough, it doesn't make sense to make an enemy out of ourselves. Sorry for the wall of text but hopefully some of that made sense.
