(((SH)))

It's not easy.

So sorry the counsellors weren't much help. And so sorry about your having been reported to student affairs. That must've been a difficult ordeal at a time when you needed help.


If anyone knows about how difficult it is to get proper employment after having been out of the loop, it's me. So I can appreciate where you're coming from.


I'm concerned, though, that if you were to make a decision to give up art altogether, then you might become more depressed. I know you're in a conundrum over the cost of supplies, but use what you have. Even if it's just a charcoal pencil and a sketchbook to feed your soul in spite of all the nay-saying from the past be it from parents or art teachers or whomever. Keep creating. Let creating art be an act of defiance and of resilience.

As for money, you can learn to have a new, more confident relationship with it.