
How many people who thinks that their less or better than anyone?
I think in some point, unconsciously we said
“Man...She/he’s better than me”-meaning I’m less than him
Or even said
“haha that man is suck, he can even draw a circle!” –meaning ‘I’m better than him
When I said this is not only applied in art worlds, is in every aspect of life. We tend to compare ourselves with others, concentrate on what we don’t have.
I do often compare my self with other in the past, just like teenager who tries to find herself in the world, surrounded by genius and beautiful people; it is very easy to say to my self I’m less good than anyone that I’m hard to find my own self which is result having a very low confidence and other child memories that might bring me and other people who have same situation with mine, furthermore, in the common society, to be Good in general –stick to the mainstream is very well accepted, comparing other people who is better than whom is just like daily routines and said “whoa I’ll ne better if I look like her/him”.
When I think about it, it is pretty much useless, I really laugh about it. I was forget that Dear Lord create human different from each other. So why that I bother with the thing that I don’t have?
Can we accept that everyone is having different qualities, strength and weakness, their own uniqueness?
The thought that I’m less than anyone because I don’t have this, I don’t have that, is the worst way to kill our unique self, you close your chance to be different…and to have opinion that “I’m better than her/him” is also the way to stop your self to bloom, close your own room for your improvement .
Research said people who always think that he/she is better than any people have less tolerance, less empathy, no respect with other that bring you hardship, less happiness in your life, would I or even you try to living like that? That’s quite sad.
For art stuff, have you seen same concept artworks or even portrait, even one person do concept about “dream” it will be different from other people concept about “dream”, other thing , look closely portrait works, two people paint the same person, it will give different result and mood. That’s’ unique quality, don’t think about who is better but think about how we improve.
From now on, just be my/yourself and accept everyone is different and see how beautiful things turn out, probably is hard to do, but with the faith, we’ll move on.
Aulia