Why make anything? Why bother?

[havran]

You'd think one,maybe two answers to this thread would be enough for the sure of mind

In defense of @BONES, guys our age often have second thoughts and afterthoughts and might even have to fight our way through our dense internal jungles and vine-entangled treasure-houses with a machete just in pursuit of some little scrap of knowledge we are sure we used to know, let alone to retrieve some distilled bit of wisdom that might help someone else (so we hope).

My question would be: why has @BONES been suspended, and not @melomood?

[havran]

@BONES rocks!

[havran]

Bones got suspended? Strike the previous comment I thought was directed at me

Please "contribute" elsewhere.

[havran]

Leave some footprints on the world, dammit.

Why? My goal is to leave no trace, no evidence I was ever here. If it wasn't for my bandmate, you'd never see my name or any photos of us on any of our work. The work matters to me, I don't matter at all, a situation with wihch I am completely happy. It's like when I leave a campsite or finish my lunch in a food court - I always leave everything exactly as I found it so that no-one would ever know anyone had been there.

My goals are not so idealistic (plus my feet would probably stick to the rice paper if that were the test), but when it comes to food courts I often leave the table a little cleaner than I found it.

These days I think it's a very bad idea to seek fame. Fame these days is especially just a magnet for crazy people and violence, whether physical or psychological.

A strange thing is that an early influence in the course of my scantily productive life as an artist was Boris Pasternak (initiated by Robert Payne's book, The Three Lives of Boris Pasternak), who at an early age wrote a short story called "The Mark of Appeles" [which I still have not read, even in translation — Sorry Mr. P.].

[havran]

You'd think one,maybe two answers to this thread would be enough for the sure of mind

Are you sure about that?

And if so, are you taking a jab at people you believe to be unsure of mind?

Interesting.

[havran]

I think that interest is more important than reason when it comes to creating.

Just repeating my appreciation, as it seems there has been some clutter in this thread.

[Dirtgrain]

For most, being human is to connect with others. Making music and sharing it is a way to connect with others. For a few, such connecting can lead to fame, but that does diminish the value of connecting for anybody else, to any degree.

[an-electric-heart]

I get a buzz unlike anything when I finish a song that I'm really proud of, but that's always without fail followed closely by a low of disappointment when you put it out and nobody listens to it... So it kind of balances out, but I do go through long periods of doing nothing because the inevitable disappointment outweighs the good buzz, and I'm just kind of not up to putting myself through it.

[DrGonzo]

So why make tracks, why write, why make images and publish any of those when there is a blizzard of other stuff out there?

I went through a dry spell for about ten years of barely being able to finish any music apart from cool ideas and loops. That might partly be a result of me working with sounds which is almost like miniature compositions, but I definitely remember feeling exactly how you describe.

I think it's like start doing a sport. Why bother with learning yourself archery? There are better and more effective ways of shooting projectiles. It's about expressing yourself through knowledge and gradual mastery. I did some Kyudo some years back - Japanese archery - and some of the people in the group were immensely enjoying the sound of the string when releasing the arrow.

[Biome_Digital]

What else is there to do?

[Unaspected]

I think that interest is more important than reason when it comes to creating.

Just repeating my appreciation, as it seems there has been some clutter in this thread.

Thank you.

I echo what others suggest: There is a burning need to do this. For me, it's more about sound design and production for other people, rather than my own music - though I have written and recorded my own songs in the past. I've been through long spells of writer's block as well, yet the desire to create remains - even when it seems to have no direction, energy or time to fulfil.

We change so much as we grow and if we had a message that we wanted to promote previously, we might not resonate with those concepts any longer. I found that, whilst meaning and reason can be lost, interest remains; It's an attractive property: Interested is interesting.

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here's another reason

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[Avorand]

It looks like you are fed up with it. This question could be asked for anything that involves creation and publishing. For me the answer is, that I want to spent my time doing the stuff I'm passionate about. The fact that there are so many other beings out there with the same passion, motivates me even more.