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Disillusionment Is A Sneaky B****, But We’re Catching On To Her Game
Creatives are favorite targets for Disillusion, but you don’t have to give in to her drag-down tactics anymore.
If I had to describe disillusionment in a word, that word would be an onomatopoeia. And that onomatopoeia would be eeeAAUUUHHGH.
I’m sure that clarified things for someone out there. Maybe not you, but someone.
Essentially, disillusionment is the pervasive sense that things “aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.” It is the particular kind of dread that creatives feel when they are confronted with a long-term phenomenon that isn’t quite failure, but sure feels related to it. A second cousin, perhaps.
If left to her devious devices (Double Ds, if you will), disillusionment can spin you into a profoundly damaging state of burnout, exhaustion, depression, and existential anxiety.
It’s not a good scene, guys. And if there’s one single force that can truly, routinely be said to end the career potential of artists and freelancers, that force is disillusionment. You don’t have to let her take the wind out of your sails, though — or your sales, for that matter.
