Don’t Follow Your Bliss

The lie that keeps creators stuck

Joseph Campbell said, “Follow your bliss.” I think that’s a bunch of horse shit. There is no bliss in the hero’s journey—only compulsion, sacrifice, and the madness of doing it anyway.

The only reason I’m living my life this way is because my brain has dis-ease.
I am tortured by my own volition—a perturbation of thought that numbs my sense of danger, curb…