ethan hawke said something i haven’t stopped thinking about — we usually move past art like we have no need for it, until loss enters our life and suddenly nothing ordinary can hold what we’re feeling
the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest.
the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.
Obsession is a talent itself. Not everyone can be intense. If you are intense, then I have just one advice for you: redirect that energy away from people and focus it on a skill, an interest, a business. People are not projects you can own.
You really do have to put yourself on a certain pedestal. Like yes, you’re better than that, you’re bigger than that, you can’t associate yourself with that, and you can’t even entertain that .