No one cares if you Make art

 No one cares about your art. No one wants to hear what you have to say. Nobody is waiting for your next work to hit the public…

...Do you still want to do it anyway?

Good.

Because that’s what it was all about in the first place. Before the views, and the likes, and the awards and the money, before any outside influences made you question what you do, you did it because you were drawn to it. Because the medium spoke to you, and you spoke through it. Because it brought you joy and wonder and reminded you that magic was real. 

Because it brings you a sense of completion in an otherwise uncertain and chaotic world. 

And maybe someone, somewhere told you they liked what you did. That it touched them, moved them, helped them, made them feel something. And you smiled. Like you’re smiling right now, remembering it. And maybe nobody told you. No one said how you made them feel, or that they liked what you did. Either because they got busy, or distracted, or had to leave the event. Or maybe they just felt awkward or scared to approach you, because what you do meant a lot to them and they didn’t want to ruin the experience by being brushed aside when they approached you. (Not saying you were going to, but we tend to psyche ourselves out at times when approaching someone we admire.)

Maybe your work reminded them of a lost art of their own. Of something that brought them joy and completion. And maybe after seeing your work, they picked up that pen or that brush or those dance shoes for the first time in years, and flourished them with a renewed smile that cast away layers of insecure frowns.

Maybe it just touched one person. Maybe it just touched me. Maybe it just touched you.

But isn’t that what it’s all about in the first place? Isn’t that what makes it all worth it?

So what if ‘nobody’ cares? It was never about them in the first place. 

Keep making the world a brighter place as only you can. Because I care. And because you care. And because the world would be a little duller without your unique brand of wonderful in it.