Paulie Monster

Hopeless Creative. All social media: @pauliemonster pauliemonster.com

[pauliemonster]

thanks for existing bud

🖤

[poemswords]

[sicknare]

[thepersonalquotes]

[pauliemonster]

“You fell in love with my flowers but not with my roots, so when autumn arrived, you didn’t know what to do.” 🥀 #tbt #colormedifferent

[pauliemonster]

[poems-and-word]

[poems-and-word]

[vanish]

[poems-and-word]

[why-bless-your-heart]

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

[putyouinabook]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

[why-bless-your-heart]

I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.

[determinate]

[pauliemonster]

But we said what we said.

[pauliemonster]

[pauliemonster]

“Shoot myself to love you; if I loved myself, I’d be shooting you.”

[timbllr]

[pauliemonster]

“Life’s more of a churning ocean than a winding road.”