Arte Diem

Talent Scout: You have talent, but your skin color and the way your body will shape growing up don't fit with the looks of the ensemble of a corps de ballet. Agent: As a model there is no market for you because you look too different. Talent Manager: You have light-skin privilege, go get a sugar daddy. Studio Manager: We don't hire female engineer, because they get emotional. Music Producer: Women can't mix or make beats. It never sounds right. Line Producer: I almost didn't hire you, because pretty girls are stupid.
These lines still now and then coming back to resonate in my mind were said to me by women. People in the world will try to put you in a box, project their feelings and emotions onto you and call it constructive criticism. They will make you feel rejected and not worthy. You will hear and learn the gossip and you will have to "fight the odds"... but the odds don't really exist. Gambling statistics are odds and if you see life as a gamble, t…