know what your music is. leo tolstoy asked this question, "what if my whole life has been wrong?"

as an artist, sometimes all you have is your intuition. you can ask others for advice or opinions on your work, but at the end of the day, "you have to be independent of the good opinion of other people."

as my friend mandy brought up yesterday, "what if instagram had no likes?" would you still be posting what you do now? what if you were never critiqued by anyone else, what would you art look like then?

i believe it's so important to distance ourselves from what other people are doing, saying, creating. what is your truth? what do you seek? spend time alone and get to know yourself.

get to know yourself so you never have to pretend again, show up exactly as you are.

i have spent aching hours alone- reading, writing, thinking, running, trying to get to the truth of who i am as a person. what am i here to do? what would fulfill me, and help others? sometimes the answers don't come to us as discernible as we'd like them to, but if we begin to just ask, we are making progress. we are moving towards our truth.

know who you are, and it will bring you happiness that you could not get through money, things, success, or another person.

it will be beyond your wildest dreams.