I’ve talked about The Struggle before. It’s that time between seeing something you want to make in your head and that moment you realize while attempting to create it, that you aren’t skilled enough.
I’ve had too many of these moments to count, and what got me through them was following a piece of advice that a building told me (graffiti). “Trust your struggle.”
You have to trust that despite your inability, your struggle, and your frustration, that you will gain something monumental out of it. The majority of Struggles I’ve gone through, I have learned the lesson immediately after it’s completion (sometimes poor completion, but lesson learned, regardless).
Other times, it has taken awhile. When I was struggling through NaNoWriMo (writing a novel in one month), trying to force myself to write until it was manifested, I teared up because I was struggling so much. The struggle was real, it was frustrating, but I refused to let my mind, my fear, my inability to meet the perfection I saw for myself stop me from writing. It ended up being a fairly good first book.
If we ever want to create something that we picture in our minds, we have to trust The Struggle.
Stay Positive & Trust It, Again And Again
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