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goobster  ·  3184 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The other side of "doing a job you love"

Absolutely. We are saying the same thing.

Do what you love, but then you gotta let that shit go out into the world on its own, and you cannot hold any further investment in it.

And that is hard.

When you do what you love, you put your heart in it, and so when you let it go, a little bit of your heart goes with it.

That is a hard thing.

And nobody talks about that side of it when telling people to "live their bliss", or "follow their dream", or "do what you love".

I just want to bring up the fact that this platitude has a genuine dark side, and that dark side can be really hard to adjust to.