"...you can write the same subject more than once. You can write, paint, draw the same thing over and over if you want to...you can go back and revisit it. You can pick up the conversation over and over if you have more to say." - Lihini
Interpretation - You do not have to do everything right the first try. You don't have to even get it on the second, third, or fourth attempt. You will not be perfect, no one is, and your mind will not always be bountiful with creativity. I am only on the first weekly quote, yet I already know that farther down the road I will repeat my words and advice. However, I also know that there is always room for growth in my writing and improvement in my vocabulary.
Application - There was an artist by the name of Claude Monet, who is most infamously known for his contribution to the Impressionist Art Movement. In the span of his life, 1840-1926, 86 years long, he is estimated to have made over 2,500 paintings and drawing. He painted bridges, lakes, all things nature, including people. But, in the later parts of his life, from 1914 until that of his death, Claude Monet devoted himself to his final collection. Over and over, day after day, he revised and redrew, and painted, water lilies from his garden, amounting to some 250 in 12 years. The collection now resides in the popular Musee de l'Orangerie, France, the painting being the exact reason for the museum's fame.
Conclusion - I think we often forget that we can do whatever we want, that we have free will, and that no one is actively stopping us from trying something again. Fail or succeed, there is always room for improvement.
- Samantha Stein
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