It is not for the old to judge the young
I have I few books that I find inspiring on my bed side table and my desk. They could be classified as self-help books/ career-help books/ spiritual-help books (just choose the label that you like, that is if you like labels).
I usually open a page, often at a time when I am frustrated or struggling with something. Today I opened the page and read this:
“Can’t we ever realize that it is not for the old to judge the young-that it is the young who must judge the old?
To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man’s work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it. It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.
If you want to be useful, if you want to be an encouragement to the serving young artist, don’t try to pick him or judge him, but become interested in his effort with keen willingness to accept the surprises of its outcome.”
The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri
That is my inspiration for the day!