All of that fell away when I started to understand how that media diet was constraining my thinking and perspectives. Nothing I was attempting to create was coming from the heart; it felt mostly like I was trying to build something to fit the shape of the world I was observing through that lens. Trying to build for now, and not for the future, and doing that oriented around external aesthetics and ideals kept me frustrated for an unnecessarily long time.
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