Keep doing the bad work

I could, technically, have this entire post be one or two sentences long, but then I wouldn't be happy with it, and so I'll write a few hundred words to make me feel a bit better about myself today, especially since this is the first article of the week.

Bad work - we all do it. Some, more than others. Those who don't are people who practiced, masters, or not, who learned how to do great and amazing work that is being appreciated and rewarded.

The rest of us have to struggle and make whatever we can in order to survive. We might go to our 9 to 5 job, we might write on the Internet, we might create images, or take photos, or anything at all.

And a lot of us are unhappy with the things we do. Some hate their work, others don't hate it, but don't love it either. There are those who are indifferent towards it, then those who like it, and those who love it.

The important thing is that we should all understand that bad work is, and will always be, a part of us. Everyone will do bad work at some point in their life. Maybe we're doing bad work now. Maybe our current work is a lot worse than the work we're gonna do in the future. We can't know, until we get to that future. And to get there, and to improve what we currently do, we must keep on doing this bad work, even if we don't like it.

It's an ugly truth that we must accept. Our work is not, and might never really be perfect.

Our work is bad, and it will be less bad in the future. It will improve, little by little, as we strive for perfection, but it will never really get there. It might be perfect, for us, or for others, temporarily, but other better things will come in time.

We should accept that our work is not perfect currently, and that it won't improve any time soon. It's kind of a joke. In order for our work to be better, we must accept it for how bad it currently is, and we must keep on doing this bad work until we learn to improve it.

This is mostly the norm, with pretty much anything we do. We write bad articles before we write good ones. We draw badly before we can draw well. We code badly before we can do it well.

But it's through this bad work that we get better, and without it, improvement wouldn't be a thing.

It's a simple concept, but one that haunts me, and you, and a lot of other people, for a long time. Maybe forever. There's not much else to say here, except this: keep on doing the bad work.