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Does success bring happiness? I live to draw, I love making games, I keep telling myself that maybe a bit of success and money will allow me to continue to do so more easily, and everything will get better. I feel constantly depressed with brief spikes of happiness when something i create gets attention and I can bring someone else enjoyment, then it's back to work in hopes I can make it happen again. Does it get better?

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no, it really doesnt sadly, thought it might make creating more art easier.

i mean its probably different for everyone, but for me success has just forced me into a place im hot comfortable with, its caused rifts between friends and family, turned me into a bank to people im close to and pushed me out of a community i felt at home in for years.

thats not to say its all bad, the possitive can easily out weigh the negative but any happiness it has brought me has been fleeting.

the truth is, i never expected to have success, i expected to only continue what i had been doing and enjoy doing it. when you are just starting out there is a bit of an uphill battle when it comes to building a name and feeling relevant and confident in what you are doing.. and that just takes time and work. once you have established who you are as a person as well as an artist you kind of plateau.. so yes it does get better as you work on yourself and your work.. 

but remember to work in yourself as much as your art, work on finding what else makes you happen, what you need in life and work at living as much as you work on creating. 

dont focus on outside successes, focus on personal success. each game/drawing/etc you make is a building block towards something better, put your head down and focus on whats around you now and not what will eventually come. 


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