This Isn’t Live?

“This isn’t live?” a comment in the chat read during the youtube premiere of my skytrain pop-up. It was probably innocuous, but it highlights the fact that you can’t satisfy everyone when doing things. Even free things. Here we are, throwing a free party, and then putting the entire thing on youtube for free to watch, and still someone can be disappointed it’s not live.

In these cases I’ve learned to just assume that comment was harmless (the most likely) or if it was actual disappointment (less likely), then just decide it’s not for them. It’s a very freeing concept to realize that not everything needs to be for everyone. If someone isn’t enrolled in your journey, you don’t need to cater to them, you can just politely tell them it’s not for them and move on.

The hard part is being confident in your decisions when someone declares they don’t like it. It’s hard. We’re human, we’re emotional beings, we want people to like things… to like us. But ultimately in the long run, the respect comes from having an idea and sticking to it, not reducing your creation, your labour, to the lowest common denominator. I’d rather fail at something I love doing than succeed at something I felt pressured Into making. 

So the next time someone says something negative about something you did just leave them with “all good, it wasn’t for you,” and keep creating <3.

-felix