you take care too...

better not to be reliable...

Our artist Art Burshy meets many people when having drinks in his home-cafe, always ready to hear personal stories. This time he is talking to a business manager that is exhausted by work and all the problems he has to solve...
reminds him in many ways of how he was himself some years ago...creates a flashback of years ago:

At times Art felt great to be rewarded for working hard, structuring the approach, making business plans and always be there to solve issues...he was The Man to go to in times of crisis.
Somehow his energy levels (and maybe his ego a bit too) would grow when he was the one that could help others solve their issues, having special expertise, experience or skills...
These interesting issues and challenges were nice and inspiring at the start...but later often would become a burden; they would add to the tsunami of ToDo's, responsibilities, and energy-draining activities he still needed to do... and at times he felt like he was carrying the world on his shoulders...

He also discovered that:
- others were happy to screw up things in such a way that it outweighed all the lovely things that Art did,
- several people that created issues were happily leaning back and very relaxed, while Art was struggling to solve all the issues, cleaning up all the sh*t...
- after all nobody really seemed to care whether some items were resolved, and same things would repeat itself again and again...

So...how to deal with this...?
Well Art decided to let go of his reliable image and became the opposite...an artist
This allows him to be more eccentric, less predictable and... as soon as he mentioned he was an artist peoples expectations would drop dramatically...how convenient ;)

Not everyone will be happy about this, but then again Art realise other peoples happiness is not his purpose in life.

And I wonder, maybe Art is right...?

music just brings out the best in me

Music inspires our friend Art Burshy,

makes him easily get into a flow,

touches his rare and deepest emotions,

enriches the expression in his paintings,

makes him active and energetic.

contrary to what happens when he watches TV,

which makes him wanna sit on a couch, 

drinking beers endlessly (and wine whenever he can afford to), 

pushing pizza and chips into his face,

only crawling out of his couch to go to bed

which is sometimes too much effort by then.

So when Art is alone with his music,

he dares to push boundaries,

paint while dancing and wear his angel wings...

something he didn't dare to do this when he was a child -

those days he was afraid to get caught while passionately swaying with his wings

but now this swaying is what he does

when making his most beautiful master pieces.

Pressure of a serious and authentic artist

Our artist Art Burshy considers himself as a serious and authentic artist; he tries to reflect on how to live his life and make the right choices. Of course he is vegetarian as 'production' of meat takes so much more than just vegetables. Of course he segregates his waste so it can be reused if possible or processed in a way that is better for the environment. His art is highly reflective and shows he makes the right choices in life. He also is a role model, explaining others how important it is to pass on this world to our children in the best way we can.

But then sometimes he feels this enormous temptation, once every 2 years he actually visits a fast food chain.

But what to do when people you know enter the restaurant; Art doesn't want to get caught eating a juicy hamburger, that doesn't fit his image and what he stands for, ...

Options:

a. hide behind the massive hamburger until they have left

b. try to sneak out the fast food restaurant, hoping they have a temporary case of blindness

c. act as if you don't recognise them, assuming they will not be busy searching for crazy artists in a place like this

d. go to them and confess this is the most important sin of recent years, and that you will do everything not to make such mistake again...

e. any other suggestion ?