Just like art, you are a work in progress.
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min read
Last year was full of challenges and so many lessons. I was definitely ready for a fresh, new year. I'm determined to learn from those lessons and make 2018 the best year it can be and I've set goals accordingly. Despite that, I've been thinking a lot lately about the pressure we put ourselves under.
How myself and so many people I know never feel quite enough.
Not pretty, fit, successful, rich, organised, happy, important enough.
The list goes on.
When I think about all the wonderful people that are living their lives feeling this way, day in and day out, it fills me with sadness. But I think there is hope.
It took me a long time to realise that the success of any artwork I made was in the process and the journey of getting there - not just the final piece.
Because if I only focused on how I felt at the very end, it was too short lived to make it worth it.
Yes, it's so exciting when I stand back and realise a piece is complete.
I'm proud, I'm happy (and occasionally relieved!) but I'm never content.
Within a very short amount of time, sometimes just an hour, I'm thinking about the next piece.
When I look to other artists it's often their progress pictures or their sketchbooks that I love the most.
The unfinished aspects and the imperfections are so much more inspiring and interesting. I think in both ways, this applies to us as human beings too.
Continually living under the idea that we will feel happier or be better when we lose that weight, or earn X amount or we've bought that car is undervaluing our worth and our lives in this very moment.
Like those finished pieces of art, when you get there the probability is you will only feel satisfied for a short amount of time - and it will be on to the next goal.
Or worse, we just pick out another area which isn't quite "good enough".
But just like art, it is okay to be a work in progress.
The journey you are on and your life right now has beauty in it, if you decide to see it that way.
You are a work of art and you deserve to be appreciated, admired and loved - finished or unfinished. Melissa ❤️
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