AUGUST 2025 – Life is full of branching paths. Some routes are as easy as a summer’s day and guide you forward with a carefree confidence that puts a spring in your step. But then others feel like a rugged harrowing climb along a knife’s edge into a deep fog, where you don’t know where you’re going and you just have to hope there is brighter views ahead. I’ve experienced both, but I think most often life is more of a low resolution labyrinth. Full of familiar turns, back tracking, and more than a little bit of confusion and head scratching.
It is only natural to focus on the future and what’s ahead of you, yet, unless you pay attention to where you’re actually headed and the bigger picture, you might just end up back where you started. So it is important to have a creative north star, something to guide you when the way forward is dimly lit and you are feeling lost. Maybe it is your stubborn persistence, or the encouragement of someone inspiring in your life, perhaps its a promise you made to yourself, or your just simply your own internal drive to create that you can’t turn off and have to turn it lose and see where it takes you, haha.
I think the important thing to remember in this age of AI and uncertainty is that only you can create the work that you do. Your creative voice like your fingerprints is completely unique. And the more you strengthen it through practice, persistence, and progress the better a talent you’re going to become. But you have to keep going. Or make the hard choice to take a different route and find a new direction. No shame in that either. The point is to always keep moving and developing and learning.
The light will be there at the end of the tunnel if you are continuing to put forward effort, it just might take you longer to get to where you want, but if you don’t try, you can guarantee that you will never get there. So, chart your course, throw your self into it, and see where you end up!
~ CS
