My list of rules:
- Don’t care so much.
- But care enough.
- Care tremendously. About your art and about yourself and about everyone surrounding you.
- Never strive for perfection.
- Strive for disaster on occasion.
- It’s the only way to learn.
- Work hard when you can and when you can’t, that’s okay too.
- Sometimes you have to give up and start again.
- And again.
- And again.
- Sometimes you will fall to pieces.
- Do not be afraid to put yourself back together for fear of what you will look like.
- Do not fear death.
- Embrace the concept of a beating heart.
- Be painfully dumb and unpredictable at all times.
- Love without limits or conditions.
- Just love.
- Always be kind to cats.
I dedicate these Rules to a long lost friend, here on the one year anniversary of her death.
Remember to always live. Don’t ever forget you are alive and capable of anything.
-alicia
