Our work has value beyond our desire for recognition. Its worth is innate when we take time to do our best amid the rush of life. This alone gives it merit though we've yet to merit others regard. Conceiving our work so deceives many of us because the desire for recognition bewitches. It also robs us of the joy of creation.
Beyond Recognition
Thus, we are routinely moody about
things that are ultimately beyond our control. Paradoxically, a desire for praise
empowers and impoverishes together because we can't garner it, enough at least to
ease our angst. If we aren’t careful, we will devalue our work when we are
ignored. Acknowledged, however, we are ignited. Conquering this conundrum
requires us to affirm our work (and worth) without recognition. Only in doing
so can we overcome custom.
Beyond Custom
We are conditioned by custom to view
recognition as proof of merit. Discouraged by clicks, how often do we exist in
professional purgatory because others ignore our work and its worth? How often
do we consider quitting
because we aren't getting the hits we imagine, which we use to establish a
pattern of success?
Passion Beyond
Patterns
These patterns matter but they
shouldn't maim when they are missing from our lives. During these times, we
must affirm emphatically the worth of our work. We must also reject the portrait
of persecuted genius --the kind common to artists. Rather than being insulted
by others indifference, we should work without regard for the regard we’ve yet
to gain, convinced that our work has merit
though we aren't raved and recognized.
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