Your work is never your own when it's done for others. Happiness is in feeling an ownership toward the work you do, because it allows you to develop your skills. I don't think I like anything I've done in recent years, apart from some music that I might have made for myself with the band. No design or art related work made me happy. I kept going because seeing myself grow skillfully made me happy. But whatever ownership I had for all the work I was doing was a fallacy. It was never mine or my collaborators' to begin with. The work was done for others, and I feel no sense of pride in that. So few are lucky enough to do work for themselves and have it be loved by others. And even fewer are happy to grow with their own work. They must feel lucky, even happy to some extent. Everything else that is material is meaningless.
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