My Name is Daniel

In school you are taught to study for the sake of taking some kind of exam.  These exams are finite and have clearly defined questions with clearly defined answers.  If you memorize the answer or learn how to do the problem correctly, then you will be able to pass.

Life is similar in that there are questions to be answered, but in real life there are no clearly defined answers, and often times the question itself is hard to figure out.  There’s no answer key that you you can cheat off of, and when you try an answer and it is wrong, the consequences are more than a red mark on a piece of paper.

So what’s the moral of this story?  Be careful how you answer…

Have you ever worked really really hard at creating something?  A painting? Sculpture? Drawing? Website?  Only to find that people don’t really like it that much?  Then when you feel a little depressed about it, someone says “Don’t take it personal. It’s not YOU they don’t like, it’s the {fill in the blank}”.  Well, I don’t find this statement helpful at all.  Yes, I understand that it’s not me as a person they are disliking, but that thing I just put my heart and soul into is definately somewhat of a representation of me, so it makes sense that it feels personal when someone doesn’t like it. 

So, fully understanding that it’s not actually personal, I still reserve the right to be bummed when someone doesn’t like my art.  So there!