the fact that i start drawing regularly again every time i cut ties to toxic environments is insane when i think about it!!!!!!!! fucked up how much creativity is directly connected to mental wellbeing!!!!!!!!
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Same! It's almost as if experiencing the toxic environment itself, is what gives the push to be creative. When you pull yourself away it's as if the toxicity hands you ammo to express those feelings in novel ways.
I'll never forget the instant release and freedom I felt after quiting a toxic job that had me working 10-12 hour days 6 days a week. Everything came flooding back; creativity, emotions, and (funny enough) my sex drive. Lol
Often we try to lower expectations to avoid being disappointed, so at worst expectations are met and at best pleasantly surprised, but in order to achieve what you want you also have to believe in your own ability to do so. It’s frustrating how much mindset impacts our actual ability to do things.
Nah, this just happened to me. I keep being shocked about it, and my mind keeps wandering, but I ended up storyboarding something with my sister! It's felt great!
fight with every1 even if you're wrong, let the anger seep in and bad words flow out
Then come home, fire up some hypnotic music (no genre is mandatory, follow your mood), now you got anger-adrenaline but you're calm, so start writing and kill people!
I find that creativity (for me) is the first thing to suffer when I get stressed. It’s amazing how artists can make amazing things while being chronically underpaid and while living in uncertainty.
I dropped out of art school and when the idea I'll have to go back there wasn't constantly looming over my head, I soon after started drawing again lol (I thought I was done with art just a few months prior to that).
Its wonderful your energy has returned to you. This is such an important concept and it makes me irate when I think of how people tell those suffering to have a creative outlet to destress. Creativtiy is best for the person once uneccesary stress is aleviated.
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fight with every1 even if you're wrong, let the anger seep in and bad words flow out
Then come home, fire up some hypnotic music (no genre is mandatory, follow your mood), now you got anger-adrenaline but you're calm, so start writing and kill people!