Wisdoms gained from life, from being an illustrator of the articles on the papers here, translated…
Most of times, I’d used my drawings to tell stories, first, I’d, chewed on the words, then, make them into pictures; and now, I will, start to make my drawings, into words once more.
The most impressionable illustration I’d done back in 2018 was for the article, “What do I do, when we have a difference of opinion?”, the writer, Chang described a conflict she’d faced at work, and showed how an introvert dealt with the situation, how they can cope, other than running away and avoiding confrontations. This reminded me, that sometimes, we’re, used to keeping everything bottled in, felt, that we shouldn’t, have face-to-face confrontations, then, we’ll, solve whatever differences we have with one another. As we thought, “oh, it’s fine”, “no big deal”, “just hold it in a bit, and it shall pass”, and, used our, overt empathy, but in the end, we’d, not managed, to satisfy any of the parties involved, including ourselves, and as you can imagine, this wouldn’t, end well at all.
and here, is the illustration by the artist, off of UDN.com
For this, I’d, selected the bright colors for my illustrations, to tell, that everybody has a heart of passion inside her/himself, and that gray hand symbo9lized the event itself, covering the eyes, and the ears, showing the enlarged earring. And the wide open mouth was for the screams we want to make deep within our hearts. As for the intertwined, mingled up brain, showing, the mingled together, messed up mindset, that state of chaos we find ourselves to be in, using the loops I’d drawn out, showing how this, is an endless vicious cycle, showing the accumulated emotions, of beginnings and endings. And, as the product of this emotional chaos continued, what came of it, swallowed us up whole.
“Having a difference of opinions” to me, it’s actually, a show of one’s own creativity, it can, spark up those, brand new ideas. There’s no right or wrong of the matter, only different perspective.
If at the start, we had the goodwill, should we not only, focus on the bigger picture, but also, the problem itself, to express ourselves more clearly, so we can, resolve the differences we have?
Like the writer said at the very end, “no matter it’s at work or in life, if we keep on avoiding, we will only, limit ourselves.” Those who are, constantly running away, if they became, so squeezed in, into that small circle they’d made for themselves, wouldn’t that be, betraying, that point of origin they were from?
And so, you’d, learned a lot about yourself, as well as other people, from illustrating the articles, hadn’t you? This just showed, how a little bit of introspection still goes, a VERY long way, if only, we can, all acquire the ability to introspect, then, there would be, less problems in this world right now…
Life, the Obstacle Course 