Labyrinth

Song of the Sea Parody

have a wonderful day!

It's not a silly ask. It's something most artists struggle with at points, especially when young - comparing yourself to other artists in a way that makes everything feel like an unpleasant, hopeless competition; thinking your goal should be becoming the "best" most stand-out artist in an entire discipline; thinking you must be a professional success by some ridiculously young age; conflating your innate worth as a human being with the amount of positive attention your art gets.

There's also a tendency to gloss over all the struggles, missteps, discarded work, practice and dedication that went into everything you're judging yourself against. On the surface, it looks like you're surrounded by natural born geniuses who turn out masterpieces like nothing. They don't. None of it was easy. It was years or decades getting there. I guarantee there were restless nights, untold dark hours of self-doubt, endless frustration, and literal tears shed over this stuff. What you're seeing is a very curated end result.