An acorn doesn’t grow into a giant oak because it plans on providing shade, carbon-sequestering services and roosting branches for birds. It simply creates itself into the only thing it knows to be. The shade and oxygen and animal life shelter are the results of an acorn becoming an oak.
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Do your creative work because it’s in you, innate to only you. Do it because that is you being fully you in your present state.
(artist retains all rights to print reproductions of this painting)
Inspiration: common license photography
ORIGINAL COPY POSTED ON INSTAGRAM DURING THE CHALLENGE
People have been asking me a lot what the point of this whole challenge is – like what am I hoping for? And to tell you the truth, I have no idea. Well let me rephrase – I have many dreams and ideas but no attachment to them. I’m just curious and excited and filled with conviction.
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But it’s not an answer people seem satisfied with. So today I thought about it this way:
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An acorn doesn’t grow into a giant oak because it plans on providing shade, carbon-sequestering services and roosting branches for birds. It simply creates itself into the only thing it knows to be. The shade and oxygen and animal life shelter are the results of an acorn becoming an oak.
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Do your creative work because it’s in you, innate to only you. Do it because that is you being fully you in your present state. 🌳🌳
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