People need to write, because writing is a form of thinking.
First of all because it forces you to make sense, writing allows you to organize your thoughts. As I do it more and more I am also realizing that I can find the contradictions in my reasoning.
I started writing this blog with cartoons because I have a lot of things to say. As different my ideas are from each other, they seem to coexist without collapsing and without me ending in an asylum (Do they still call it like that?).
So writing allows me to connect these ideas. I don’t even know if I should say I am lost or I was lost when it came time to decide who I am going TO BE, things I am going TO DO. Then I put all the things I do for no good reason other than to express myself.
I will share the diagram I came up with the next time.
(Please read the part1 of this post from the day before to get some context)
If we all come from a single point of origin, I can hardly believe the argument “We are all the same” but I can stand behind “We are all connected”.
First of all, think physically, you are not in a bubble even if you are not surrounded by people all the time. Think about the device you are reading this blog on. Can you imagine how many people were involved to get this product in your hands?
OK let’s leave the physical for the moment, you actions are determined by your programming from people you have encountered which in turn will influence the way people people see you, creating a cycle. Figure out if this cycle is what you want in life, you can always break it.
When people say “CHANGE THE WORLD”, as monumental as it may seem, they actually mean : “Change the perception others have of you”. Become the change you want to see in the world and I am not the first person to say this. If you want to become a writer, just start writing and start sharing.
I made a decision to find what I love doing and get paid to do what I love.
So the hardest is and will be to figure out how one goes about finding his or her dream. For me, it came from the people I look up to, people who I consider to be my mentors whom I have never met and maybe will never meet in my life.
But I admired their work, I loved the impact they’ve had on me so I wanted to have that same impact on other people so we can share this joy created by art through artists.
When I say people, I am talking about Filmmakers, Authors of books, Speakers, Philosophers, intellectuals, Stand-up comedians, Comic book artists and Artists in general.
Even when I give all these people different categories, different jobs, they are all ARTISTS, in that they are masters at what they do. One example would be Neil Gaiman, the author of such books as AMERICAN GODS and the brilliant Sandman comic book series.
Now I felt that I was torn between all these endeavors, but somehow I remained intact and happy while doing videos about movies, talking about movies, making cartoons, writing blogs, making tutorial videos for drawing, working on my web comic series and so on.
So I put everything I do online on a paper to see if it makes sense, and it did, so much so it was not a table I was able to come up with, but a circle where everything is connected with me at the center of it.
I know people say you should focus on one thing before you move on to another, for the moment I can’t maybe later I will have the maturity to do so, but for the moment this is who I am (I’ve put the links to those platforms below the diagram):
I don’t believe we are all equal yet, because we are different. You might say “I love everyone or at least I accept everyone”. You can say that when you have actually met everyone in the world.
I am glad you are open to suggestions when you say you accept people despite their differences, I applaud that but your tolerance level is limited, limited to what you know to be differences. What if you encounter something or someone outside of the realm you call different?
I said all that so you can be aware of it. Because not knowing all that is different is not the problem. The problem is most people not being objectively aware of their disposition towards those who are different.
But we are happy to discover similarities with strangers despite all the cultural differences thrown at us as if having the same biological features is not enough (two eyes, one mouth, two ears, etc).
Grant Morrison (my hero) said that since we began as a single cell organism, that cell split and that cell is within all of us. Just think about that for a moment.
They don’t want you to be yourself, they want a filtered self.
I have already made it clear why I hate the typical motivational quotes. When you hear BE YOURSELF, as useful as it is people usually take it in many different ways.
For me being yourself is not being against or being ignorant of the opinions others have of you. It means being aware of your influences and keep a healthy detachment from them, whether they are your friends, literature, the people you consider mentors, etc.
Because technically it’s impossible to be yourself because to be yourself you need to have complete free will, but we don’t. We are constrained by wherever we were meant to belong or wherever we choose to belong.
I am not going to blame it on the system, I am aware of the system, I am just trying to make it in it. Because succeeding within a constrained environment is intelligence.
For your information here are some definitions of intelligence:
Google: The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
merriam-webster.com: (1) The ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations. (2) The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria.
dictionary-cambridge.org: The ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason.
collinsdictionary.com: intelligence is the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by instinct.
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