Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?

My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.