Values?

Whether you're an artist or not, you will eventually try to figure out what's important to you. You may be forced into thinking about it like we were today in STAC, or you may just come to a realization after doing things your not so proud/proud of. I don't think anyone is born knowing what ideas and values they believe in.

I don't know what my core values are for sure yet, but things on my list so far are:

1. Confidence
2. Not allowing other people to influence you too strongly
3. Thinking things through

What was easier for me was to spot one of my issues. Once Luke said to think back through all your work and see what's reoccurring I figured out the commonality in all of them immediately. I've constantly been testing the boundaries of the relationships between family members. I always try to test the strength of strong families I make up or try to break the weaker. I can pinpoint this back to the birth of my brother. I'm eight years older then him, and the eight years were I was an only child was spent begging for a sibling. I've always been strangely close to my brother. Yes, I admit, there are times where my hormonal teenage girl self snaps at him for a reaction, but more often then that I'm oddly protective of him. Less "big brother" and more motherlike. Not that I don't have a good mother -I do- but I can't help but be another voice of reason for him.

I also had discussion about time today. I can't write about this much because it's something I think about all the time and still don't have a strong point of view on yet. I need to digest.