sore spot

    
    

    
    
    In honesty, I’ve always had a sore spot for academia. 
    It’s always around finals season that 
    I start to feel like a failure 
    or that I didn’t try hard enough. 
    
    Despite what I know, it’s still deeply embedded
    in me that my GPA determines my worth as an artist 
    or even as a person. 
    
    It’s difficult to balance mental health and art school 
    when you already view your work as an intrinsic part of yourself.
    
    What happens when you don’t perform as well as you’d hoped? 
    What does that mean for you as an artist, 
    as someone whose work centers around what you create? 

    It’s hard to separate your work and your worth 
    and unless capitalism is abolished, 
    
    
    I don’t think this will never not be difficult. 


            	

  



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