encouraging compliments, 10.12.24

someone told me last night they didn’t know what to expect when listening to my music in terms of sound, but they were expecting it to be like most other artists attempting to do music which was for it to be bad. then when they listened to my songs, they were surprised and said it was actually good. comments like this make me feel good. not because it’s a compliment, but because it’s encouraging. i’m a new artist so i’m very insecure about my music. i put out what i can to the best of my ability at the time and i roll with it because if i listen to my insecurity, i’d give myself reasons to not pursue this music thing. feeling confident enough to release music without giving in to the pressures of perfection stemming from insecurity is a fine line to walk on, but i think i’m getting better at balancing myself as time passes.

in a world of subjective truths, i’d like to believe there’s a bit of objectiveness in the things i’m being told because even if i’m insecure, being naive somewhat makes up for it.

-ratha, 1:56pm, 10.12.24