As a creative person, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking that I suck.
Creating things is hard work. You want to make something that can stand up amongst your peers and (just maybe) your heroes, but as you improve, your standards get higher and therefore so much of what you create just doesn’t cut it.
Which is why it’s magic when it does.
This is a lyric from the song “The Dying Of The Light” from my upcoming album. A song about how angry it makes me that, one day, I’m going to die and how I’m regularly stopped dead in my tracks by that thought:
“I try to live my life in the moment, but it’s hard to live there when you know you’re only renting”
I don’t often allow myself to talk about something that I made in such self-congratulatory terms, but I definitely gave myself a smug little pat on the back when I came up with that one. It’s one of my favourite lyrics that I’ve ever written.
Naturally, I’m now absolutely convinced that I’ve peaked creatively and will never come up with anything better, but that’s a story for another time (and possibly a therapist). For now, I’m being positive.
What’s something you’ve created that you’re super proud of? It doesn’t have to be art - it can be anything you’ve done where you worked hard at something and saw results that you were really proud to have accomplished. Let me know in the comments.