Feeling frustrated with your journey? Things going wrong in your artistic endeavors for no discernible reason? Just feel like nothing is shiny and new like it was in college, or in your first few shows?
It's honestly just part of the process.
It may just be time for some
contraction in your path. Like in so many chemical processes, there
is expansion and contraction. In the arts, in my experience, this is
the make or break period. There is initial success where everyone is
excited and moving in the same direction.
Then that rapid heat and expansion
cools, and performers get comfortable with their success and assured
of their status. This is where bands break up,
performance groups dissolve, theaters shut down, businesses close, etc etc etc. Even where the
solo artist loses site of their goals. Or decides on new ones.
The path is always changing, with or
without our consent. The path we may have ventured forth to brave may
not be the path we find ourselves upon now. The desires and convictions
of yesterday may not coincide with the needs and the truths of today.
You have already done much to be proud
of. Take a moment to breathe, find your center, and decide on your
next step. It's okay if it doesn't fit into 'the plan', the plan was
more of a rough guideline anyway. Don't let the pressures artists put
on themselves keep you from your next adventure or your new path.
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