Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

That's what my dad says. Well he got it from a little book called "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff." I really wanted to read it but I just don't have the will power to read as much as I'd like to. I skimmed through it and yes I did learn a lot from the little I read. Which brings me to my next thought...

...In relation to what I just said up there, in the underlining, I also believe in simplicity. Less is more. Maybe it doesn't make sense now because I mean, how can you read a little and learn a lot, and not read everything and learn so much more? It may sound stupid and lazy but if I can get what I want out of the little that I need to do, I am okay with that. Because I know if I do more, I can be greater than what I am. And I know this won't make a lot of sense, or any for that matter, to most people but it makes sense to me. Now maybe (I'll admit) not in the academic area so much, although I can contradict that also but that's for another time; but for everything else around us. People seem to fail to get the most out of nothing, to see everything out of the little things. Take the world for example- it's not doing too hot right now right? With all the war and crimes and genocide and all the bad things that half of us aren't even educated about or know anything about. But there is beauty deep within the ugly, but we are too scared to look for it. There is beauty in the rest of the world, how everything flourishes and starts anew once everything dies. Or history can repeat itself forever. It's all contradicting and very stressful. Which brings me to another point...

...I do not like stress. But who does? I look at all these important people and business owners, teachers, cops, lawyers, rich, poor, etc, and they are all stressed. Some of them even have everything and no one knows why the are under so much stress. I want to be a business owner and yes I know it's nearly impossible to NOT be stressed, but I am a firm believer that you (in general) can be a very laid back, near to stress-free business owner or whatever you would like to be. People are so uptight with crammed schedules and even when they have people doing their things for them, they're still stressed. I plan on being one of the few, one out of many (E Plurbis Unim) to be a laid back business owner, life appreciate and all that come with it. Even maybe a bit lazy. Everyone deserves to be lazy.
Me being an artist, I am already half way there. Some of us say artists are very free spirited, or some say we are full of themselves. Either way maybe I can be both but so can a lot of people.

This picture I did on Illustrator was the very product of my laziness. I wasn't too familiar with the program when this was created, but it drew me in. And when I redid it, it came out to this...

It turns out that I used my laziness to create another image of something more, something that draws the eye in more. I'm actually selling prints of this image as well now. It may not seem like much, but I do take pride in them. And believe it or not, I worked a lot harder and a lot longer on the second illustration.

So I guess you can say my values and morals as a person and an artist, is try your best  not to sweat the small stuff. We can all be great and kept up to date and a little stress free more and more each day.
It does take practice I suppose.