baked the best cupcakes i've ever had. ooh, i'm so modest! hahaha... they really were so good. (chocolate with cream cheese frosting) and you know what made a difference? getting a kitchen scale that measures to the perfect gram!
and with all this recent baking (among other things) i have a question. and it is also the title of my latest book off the shelf that i should re-read:
"should i do what i love? or do what i do - so i can do what i love on the side?"
the trouble, for lack of a better word, of my generation is having too many options. we are faced with so many paths (are we overly spoiled?) that i think we almost create problems, despite there being none. instead of living contently, i've been trying to live more rationally but still, from time to time, my mind does wander.
i do like the place i work at. i am very lucky for the boss i have. my job is not exactly what i had in mind but i am learning a lot from it.
the creative part is left and felt like an afterschool activity. but is that maybe ok? baking, and bookbinding, and blogging, and drawing, and writing... should what i love be my bread winning focus or does it suffice to do it out of pleasure and on the side? i remember, going to art school, i did not want to be a full time artist. to be an artist today you have to compromise and be part of the contemporary art dialogue, aka market. i was not willing and i remember choosing to do art for myself, as egotistical as that sounds, because it would always be true to me. i don't see my art as a product. but maybe something pleasurable as well, and easier to sell maybe... should my bookbinding/designing/cake/cookie/cheesecake/cupcake making become an income? if yes, why is the 1st step so difficult? and then, why don't we all just run after what we love? do we? i feel that in general, we settle for a safer regular life. do we settle or is that the general preference, true to their hearts?
DO YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS?
