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"Jesus said, "If you want to save your life, lose it." Perhaps the same principle can be applied to art. If you want to make serious art, take it less seriously. And if you want to live a serious life, take yourself less seriously. ~Ben Courson, Optimisfits

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Back to School (not venting)

This isn’t “Journal Venting”, but I promised that I would share my victories as well so as not to be exclusively negative. No one wants to visit a blog that is “woe is me” all the time, which is not my intention. Things are hard right now, yes, but as I said in one of my previous posts, it’s important to celebrate the smaller victories as well.

For a little back story, before this year, I had not been in school for an extended period of time. Fifteen years, to be exact. I gave up on school in my late teens and when I couldn’t figure out how to go back by my early twenties, I had given up on the premise of going back to school. Especially in the United States where it just gets more and more expensive to get an education.

However, I promised a story of victory here. It started with my work coming up with a new program that pays for 100% of your schooling, regardless of what you want to major it. It sounded made up, the previous program had been reimbursement where you’d pay for the class upfront and then work would reimburse you if you passed. I asked a LOT of questions prior to committing to it. As you may have seen from previous posts, I’m going through a lot right now and adding in one more thing sounded like a really bad idea. However, I decided to take the plunge. 

I’ve been in college (doing online only schooling at the moment) for several months now. It’s still very new. I am only on my third class, but I’m passing with flying colors. I know the 4.0 GPA won’t stick forever, but it’s a great confidence booster and I’m so glad my professors give genuine feedback instead of the “cookie cutter” feedback. They give feedback that helps you grow as a student.

As someone who suffers from horrible anxiety, I must say that doing school as I feel like I can handle it has been huge for me. As long as I do everything needed by the end of the week, I get full credit! Going at my own speed and approaching things in my own way while being successful has been a huge confidence boost for me.

It’s one of the only things keeping me going right now. It’s the one thing that isn’t hard for me. It still blows my mind because I was awful at school when I was young, so I am sort of amazing myself that I am doing so well. I hope it continues. 

Thanks for reading!

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PS

The optimisfits book I spoke of in my last post is pretty religious, which I am not. I will read through it to see if it has anything I can benefit from in it, but judging from the reviews, I don’t think it will. A lot of them reference “God’s plan” and if you’re a non-believer such as myself, one of two things will happen. One, you’ll feel like the book is saying you’re going to hell or two, you’ll feel like they aren’t talking to you because the source of comfort they are using is non-existent for you. I’m curious if other non-religious people feel differently than I do about those sorts of books. I will give a real review once I’ve read the book also.

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Next month is INKTOBER month. I can't join, but I'm so excited to see some artworks from the talented artists around the world using ink.

Here's my before and after drawing. Done using pen on paper.

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