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Paralysed By Perfection

When you visualise the outcome
all you can see is failure.
You can't imagine anything good
being produced.
It seems like a lot of work to start,
an enormous hurdle.
You might not like what you do,
it might be an embarrassment to yourself.
If you don't show it anyone then who will know
so does it matter?
It feels weird to start, forbidden and uncomfortable.
What if ideas don't come? What if it can't be expressed as I like?
I try to remember Bob Ross and his 'happy accidents'.
Does anything excellent come from the first attempt anyway?
Probably sometimes when you're in that flow
but if you've been locked down and blocked
from even starting for years it is kind of unlikely.
Even writing this seems wrong.
I'm not writing it well enough or expressing myself correctly.
What am I really scared of?
After all I can rearrange this and I can change it afterwards.
I can spend as long as I like on it.
I can NEVER show it a damn soul.
Is it that if I make something I don't like I will be ashamed of it?
Is is that I will think I'm not good enough or will finally see how talent free I am?
If I'm not good at it does it matter? Perhaps a little.
Maybe I should listen to Van Gogh and paint anyway.
He made some beautiful pictures. Starry Night.
It's not perfect but I still like it. It's not photorealistic but it still has that something.
Maybe I wont be Van Gogh, probably not, but someone might like it.
Maybe even me.
The thing is I know all this yet it's so deep ingrained.
Don't look at the future or the past they are illusions and still I have had these feelings.
Now I let them go.
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This is how I've been feeling. This is why at the beginning I submitted some rough crayon pieces that I know really were far from great (I'm not claiming my other pieces are perfect) to get this feeling out the way and yet it has been back. I am not continuing to sabotage my own enjoyment and I'm going to make stuff whether the dark me likes it or not and just to spite it. The picture is a fractal I made that 'wasn't good enough'.
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*catelee2u Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thanks!
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*Soldeus Jan 24, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Very nice! I can relate to this. Sometimes creativity seems to have a life of it's own for me, especially with my writing. Sometimes it's there..sometimes it's not..but there is always that self doubt nagging in the background. The key is like you said..be in the now..feel what is real..and let it flow..don't worry if it's perfect or not. :)
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*catelee2u Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
;-)
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Great words, Cat, they remind me of when it flows...the happy accidents are Nature using me
as it's tool and it's the best feeling one can have on earth.
I don't even know I exist...I am in the Nature-Zone. I guess it's a bit like bliss. :hug:
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*catelee2u Jan 18, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Know what you mean Joe...lovely sentiments ;-)
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