you mean so many other people feel this way?

So often I think:

What do I have that nobody else does?
What can I do that no one else has done?
I want to create something, but what?
I want to start something, but how?
Am I even any good at this stuff?

And although these feelings are frustrating and hard to deal with, I'm grateful that I have them. I'm so grateful for the plans and ideas, for the desire to create. These feelings push me; they keep me pursuing, progressing. For all the projects that I don't finish or that don't go anywhere, at least I'm still trying, at least I'm doing something. Maybe someday it'll go somewhere.

I don't like when that fire goes out, because I can't ever figure out how to bring it back. But eventually it always comes back on its own.

video by zack arias, photographer
some follow-up questions by viewers and his responses here


Thanks, Nattles, for showing this to me.