Focus on the Positive...but Develop from the Negatives

What If Brian's Parents Have "Clean Laundrie?"   Recognize it or not, the Laundrie family has a loss to grieve, too, making this national news headline a perfect time to illuminate common unhealthy thought patterns we as humans tend to think with in general. I want to start this post by expressing my deepest condolences to the family of Gabby Petito, not that they can ever be enough.   There is no greater loss than to lose a child as a victim of homicide, so I don't want to open up the comments for a debate of comparing whose grief is worse; that's not my goal here. One's grief should never be compared in that sense whether by another person or themselves internally. When we experience a devastating loss, we are always allowed to grieve, even if the loss of another connected individual is morally considered far more worse than our own. Thus, with that being said, what I do want to express from a separate compartment entirely  is that I have had a certain sym

You can't save an artist who doesn't want to be saved. Somebody who isn't trying to get rich selling their artwork.  You can't help an artist who already knows her style and has learned in this social media age to always be herself because art is subjective and there will always be critics, but what sets one apart is what's unique to you. You can't save a real artist who creates for the relaxation feeling it gives her inside. In fact, by trying to, it shows someone who is not a genuine artist at all.  So the "artist" who really needs saving here is the one who became a sell out instead of finding a path that fit his own style. The one trying to convince another artist to do the same "if they want to make money," wrongly assuming that's the only driving reason someone makes art. The one who actually needs advice is the critic implying an artist's work will never sell, when he is in fact only inferring that from his own beginning ar