November 6, 2006
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//No, Really. Cut The Cliche Crap.
I often come across people asking me why do I draw, because a simple "I enjoy drawing" usually isn't an acceptable answer to them. My "detailed" answer, however, hasn't changed much in the last 16 years: I can't think of anything I do better as a means to achieve my goals in life - to stand out in a pack of average joes to attract fortune and fame.
Before I go on, I find it mandatory to clarify that I reserve a serious hatred toward those who pretend to have transcended to a higher level than everyone else, when in reality they're just sewer rats. Truth is harsh, and often ignored, but it doesn't cease to exist.
So upon hearing my answer, people would come at me with all sorts of crappy clichés, usually somwhere along the vicinity of "money isn't everything" or "you have your priorities wrong".
Yeah. Great cliche. Too bad I've also gone to elementary school and read my share of fictional stories. I am just not gulleable enough to still buy into their intention of comforting you for being poor and talent-less. It doesn't take any profound intelligence to spit out corny lines that have been repeatily beat into us through out the years.
But it takes a whole lot of living a well-sheltered life, parents paid for everything, a lack of any real experience in survival, and a denial of where the line is drawn between "how things outta be" and "how things are".
It's true that money isn't everything. I never said it is. But without money, you can't have anything. Think about that the next time your mom buys you that shiny Benz.
So my priorities, contrary to puny minds can comprehend, are "right". I am, after all, not the one who preaches the insignificance of money and then turns around to burden the parents with monetary expenses.
Money can't buy happiness? Well, watching NBA in High-Def on my 70" LCD television sure makes me real happy.
Comments (7)
Perhaps you're surrounding yourself with the wrong people...
When push comes to shove the people that really matter normally understand perfectly well why you're in the business you're in. Screw the rest.
sorry to point out but you've also bought into the cliches of materialistic consumerism....not that that's yur end goal.
but then again, i know you actually do love drawing. i know yur make it one day.
as for those other "cliches" you wrote about - i do know ppl whose lives are great witnesses of those cliches - this couple from ucla (they are actually one year younger than me) - made low to mid six figs combined (he's a banker and she a corporate atty), and yet they still drove their beat up old honda accords and lived in a tiny and cheap studio and literally gave everything away to charities keeping just barely enough money to pay the bills and buy food and other necessities. now they are in zimbabwe helping out with some ngo humanitarian program.
i know that's quite extreme, but there really are ppl like that. it's all a matter of priorities and it's different for everyone.
you know every exception to the rule only proves the rule.
Very well said! Money might not be everything, but in reality, what can we have without it? I say just live life as you want it to be either with or without the money...your choice. As long as you're not hurting anyone or killing anyone, there's really no right or wrong way to live.
Ryc: you're right, domesticated would almost be like a home pet. Kinda feel that way right now cuz a lot of the stuff I do is inside the home and for the home. Gotta get out more.....
Next time just stick to the real reason. If they can't accept it aren't they the cynical ones then?
BTW I really like this sentence: "Truth is harsh, and often ignored, but it doesn't cease to exist."
Im good. how are you? what have u been up 2??
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