Being an artst #1 rule

Actually. It's the number 1 rule in LIFE.

please.
please.
please.
read carefully what i'm about to say.

If you take nothing else away from this journal.

burn this into your mind.

"You cannot please everyone."

If you stop reading this journal now. I'd be fine with that because that is the most severely important part. Remembering that can honestly help you get through your days. Can make or break you.

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"You cannot please everyone. So do you. Be you. That's all you can do. And the people worth your time will be there FOR YOU."

People will find any reason to hate you or what you do when given even the slightest opportunity even if you are right or have done nothing to them.
This is what i've re-discovered in the past 2 weeks.
And recently...i forgot that a bit.
And i felt the need to defend myself from retarded accusations after having my artwork jeopardized.
As well as people who can't fathom the fact that I prefer to chat with people via livestream rather than skype 9/10 of the time.
And people who insist i'm just an all out bitch.

And then I remembered. You can't please everyone.
There will always be people willing to BLINDLY defend someone, proof or not.
There will always be people ready to call you an asshole the moment you don't do something exactly how they'd prefer you to do it, even if you've been nothing but nice to them.
There will always be....haters and ignorant people.

Point being:
Don't change. Don't justify yourself to assholes. Those worth sticking around, WILL.
Draw what YOU want to draw. As long as you aren't tracing/cheating, who gives a fuck if some people don't like it.
Be who YOU want to be. As long as you aren't hurting anyone, who gives a fuck if someone doesn't like you.
Do what YOU want to do.
You are the only person that can live your life.
YOU.
no one. else.

So live it to the fullest FOR you.