{"id":1,"date":"2018-06-08T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:14:46","slug":"my-transition-to-a-full-time-starving-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/08\/my-transition-to-a-full-time-starving-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"My Transition to a Full-Time Starving Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest regrets that people have on their deathbeds is spending their entire lives doing what is expected of them rather doing what they dreamed of doing.<\/p>\n<p>I learned about this and thought, \u2018well I should learn from their mistakes and do what I dream of doing!\u2019 There was just one problem: what do I dream of doing? I\u2019ve had so many interests in life, but what was my dream? After years of intense thought, emotional distress, self-discovery, failure, and success, I re<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">alized there is one clear and important factor in everything I enjoy doing: I love creating. I grew up making crafts, drawing, painting, story-writing, music-writing, taking pictures, animating, and I wanted to be an artist. What stopped me was the fear of failure, fear that I wasn\u2019t good enough to make it, fear that I wouldn\u2019t be able to make enough money to support myself and would be struggling for the rest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Now I\u2019ve worked an office job for several years. I\u2019ve learned a lot from that job, and I\u2019ve saved up enough money to dedicate myself to a full-time starving artist. I\u2019m facing my fears head-on, because I\u2019d rather take the risk than to be on my deathbed, looking back, and wishing I would have at least tried my best and given my dream a chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-May Camp<br \/>\nwww.mayzart.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Fire and Water Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Fire-And-Water-S9-C.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest regrets that people have on their deathbeds is spending their entire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,6,9,7,8,10,12,11],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introduction","tag-about-me","tag-dreams","tag-fear","tag-happiness","tag-life","tag-mistakes","tag-pursuit-of-happiness","tag-regrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayzart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}