Day 304-305 Creative Seeds

London as all big cities is a tough place to survive. Sometimes we sit opposite to our friends at the dinner table and as much as we want to say something very positive and encouraging to lift them up the best we can do is just listen and keep quite. There is no easy answer for why things don’t always work out the way we want them to, but rather the way they are supposed to, which creates disappointment. And it is not a modern phenomenon. Not only creative people have been struggling for centuries with finances. This is little or no help to one who finds one’s creativity behind the bars of the ruthless prison guards of daily struggles: making enough money to pay rent and eat. I know this myself. I have designed the Vondores logo more than 10 years ago. It took me 10 years in education from the first interior design course to Masters in fashion, 6 years working full-time in retail during university and many years of cleaning jobs and Au-Pairing before that. And finally, I am able to take a year out to pursue writing and designing. It was tough. It didn’t come easy. The only observation I could have shared over the dinner table about living in London however truthful it is would not have resulted in understanding the root of the problem: financial struggle versus safety net. One who has no support of family or savings to fall back on has to keep a full-time job here. It is simple as that and we can’t ignore this, but hope that the time will finally come when we can pour our creative seeds out.