repetition is tedious - by Ava - bookbear express

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The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with algorithmically generated inconveniences popping up left and right. You will be exasperated. You will look around and try ways to distract yourself. You will wonder why it does not feel more magical, even though it does feel magical. I know this because I am doing what I love—I write every day—and it’s hard. And I am surrounded by friends who’ve pretty much all designed their own jobs and gotten people to give them money to do what exactly what they want to do, and I can promise you that they are not exempt from the tedium and difficulty of being a person who is doing hard things in the world. Reality is not frictionless. You will still be chopp

Cecily Brown, Untitled, 1996 The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with algorithmically generated inconveniences popping up left and right. You will be exasperated. You will look around and try ways to distract yourself. You will wonder why it does not feel more magical, even though it does…

repetition is tedious - by Ava - bookbear express

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