The people who make their entire living in the arts, doing what they love, “following their bliss”\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those are the exception. Not the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vast majority struggle like crazy to achieve obscurity, taking whatever they can to keep a roof over their heads and food in their bellies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have never heard the most beautiful music. You have never seen the most sublime painting, read the greatest novel, seen the most riveting performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those are all trapped inside the person who took your drink order. The person who delivered your package. The person who cleaned the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They withered while basic survival sucked that creative energy away. They stagnated while rent was paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they eventually died in the ones who just couldn’t take hearing “No” another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The exception is not the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-the-arts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":441,"url":"https:\/\/www.mkuhl.com\/index.php\/remembrance\/david-bowie-january-10-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":0},"title":"David Bowie – January 10, 2016","author":"The Official Michael Kuhl","date":"January 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This hit hard.","rel":"","context":"In "Remembrance"","block_context":{"text":"Remembrance","link":"https:\/\/www.mkuhl.com\/index.php\/category\/remembrance\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mkuhl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/B7E7A6C3-B86B-43D4-AF3E-6B76DA7B39C6.jpeg?fit=342%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":403,"url":"https:\/\/www.mkuhl.com\/index.php\/blog\/expectation-vs-reality\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":1},"title":"Expectation vs Reality","author":"The Official Michael Kuhl","date":"October 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an aspect of depression that is rooted in the gap between expectation and reality. 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