And the Capitalist
There’s a constant war in each and every one of us, a war between the artist and the capitalist, between the man that just wants to create, to be happy to spend quality time with the loved ones and the man that wants the money, the luxury, the parties, booze, drugs and sex.
Some days the artist wins, you’re just creating art, having fun and other times the capitalist when you’re thinking about new ways of making money and improving your lifestyle.
You shouldn’t just follow the green paper no matter what, or you may become like the 2008 bankers or the governments and not care at all how you’re producing money, not caring at all if you’re ripping people off if you’re destroying lives or even killing people.
Which one is better?
Being only the artist is better but still not perfect. You can create a lot if no other thoughts are crossing your mind but at what price? The most significant painters in the world had no social life, and they were just creating and creating art full time, some of them were not evening just so they can work more and some of them even died because of their devotement, but if they were happy that’s cool for me.
The war is real for me too; sometimes I don’t even want to leave the house, I just want to write, to edit, to watch great movies that inspire me and to listen to amazing music. Other times I’m just thinking of ways to make more money, I’m just learning to trade and watching to self-developing seminars, but there’s usually a balance.
The ideal should be a balance between the artist and the capitalist, a balance between creating and making money, you should create and sell at the same time, and Steemit is a great way to do that.
You can live your life with really few money and to create the full time, to expand your consciousness and have new life experiences and also you could live your life like a robot that only produces money, but the best way is to create and to live a decent life still while you’re doing that.
Conclusion
You may think that you don’t have that artistic side in yourself, I used to think the same a few months ago. After I joined Steemit, I started to create, to write, to photograph and to edit quite a lot, and I discovered that I’m decent at some things and that I enjoy doing them. You also should experiment as many things as possible; you may find something that you like. You don’t have to be the best right off the bat, you just have to enjoy what you’re doing, and you’ll get better with time.
Also, you may think that money is evil, and they are destroying people, but until the system changes you need money. Money is beautiful since they can give you a lot of freedoms, it can expand your possibilities of creating art and experimenting life.
Sometimes the artist takes over, and other times the capitalist does but keep in mind that you need both, that you should have both in your life.
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