As some of you may know by now I am an art major in college. Recently, I was working on a crazy project (that I will post soon so check back up later!!). Anyways, one of my friends was helping me film it and he asked if it would be done in three or four weeks. He was shocked when I told him how soon the due date was for the project, how crunched for time I was, and how calm I was about the whole thing. We started talking about the crazy due dates I get for projects and how many hours I spend in the studio outside of class. He then asked me something that no one in the past two semester has ever asked me and it got me thinking. He asked me why I did it and why I put myself through the stress of art school.
I started thinking and I realized it came down to doing what I love. I love art. It is the one thing that I have always loved and always will. Most people don't get it and I understand that but I don't know who I would be without my art. It's what I enjoy and what I love more then anything. Right now if I was in college for anything else I would be miserable and my grades would probably show that. Yes the crazy deadlines and the chance of having teachers that hate my style of work and the hours I spend working are insane and yes art school is harder then I ever thought that it would be in a million years but the thing is, that doesn't matter, what matters is that I am happy and that I am doing what makes me happy.
Life is short. You can go do a bunch of crap that doesn't make you happy cause you feel like you have to because "it's life". The thing is a 9-5 standard job isn't for everyone. Most people fill the shoes of a business person to get the money that they think they need to and do the job that they think that they need to but how many of those people say that they LOVE their job and that they are living out their dream? Probably the majority of them would say that they aren't. The thing is life is what you make it. If you live life in the track that you feel like you have to, never doing what you want or love, always feeling mediocre, then as sad as it sounds your life is going to be mediocre. You are only going to be completely and totally happy with your life if you go out and do what YOU love and what make YOU happy. Please don't live you life trying to make other people happy. Live your life so that you are happy.
Screw what everyone else thinks.
Screw the people who say that art school is to easy and that your just going to become a starving artist with a pointless degree.
In the little space in the world that is yours the only option that matters is yours.
And that my dears is why I am an art major.
XOXO
LIZ