Maybe put them into scraps instead of deleting them? I've deleted my gallery a couple times and I sorta wish I'd done that for some of my pictures.

for sure. that is what i'll be doing for a good portion,
but a lot of the stuff i want to delete is already in scraps.
well, i don't know.... we'll see. I probably won't be getting rid of much.

:/ i'm sorry. hope it gets better

Thanks!!
:)

why is it you and i have bad times when everyone is so good?! we must be negatons :(

txt me when things are tough!
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then i must be one of you...

right?!
i guess things could always be worse, but... there's just no reason to any of it.
that's the scary thing.

& yeah... you'll hear from me sooner than expected :P

well i expected last night, so... great job.

i had a surreal morning, ask me next time. i cant believe how fast time went, im still shocked its 12:43pm, it feels like 7am was just an hour ago.

sorry, i ended up crashing faster than usual.
i'll be sure to bring it up (:

I would follow the suggestion of just putting them in scraps. you may regret it later if you outright delete things. they may not be you as you are now but they may have important aspects that could keep you from repeating bad things or even just as a reminder of how you have changed and how you have grown.

duly noted.
thanks!

Arrogant??? not in the least. I ought to take you to the 7th Street ArtWalk to bear witness to true hipster arrogance.
Also, Hi! I've been a ghost lately, mostly trying really hard to scrounge up work to stay afloat. I got to hit you up sometime soon.

is that in downtown LA? if so i've been to it and i think i know what you mean. those people are fucking ridiculous. well, most of them.
but i don't know... am i being hard on myself? maybe not arrogance, but... i tend to break so many promises. to myself and to others. i'd say that's a rather unsavory aspect of my personality.
oh well :l

oh yeah!
dude!! please come over & chill. you guys are welcome anytime. whenever you can work it.
my brother's in Israel, so i've commandeered the studio >:]

Totally the kind of journal an asshole would write...

aaalright, maybe asshole isn't the right word >_>

but looking back, it seems like almost everything i said i would do... i never did.
never even really tried.
& after a certain point it ends up looking intentional.

well, at least i've finally asserted the fact that i'm not like that anymore.
it's always difficult to find the right words.

Haha, aww. Don't take my comment seriously lol

Also, I'm friends with you - and really glad I am! I think you need to have confidence in your art. Letting it speak for you has resulted in quite a few fans and followers. Don't fret too much!

(that said, life realizations are important. I don't want to stand in the way of progress, either)

I can't remember ever thinking you arrogant, for what it's worth.

thanks man ^^
i might just be overreacting.

Breathe, breathe. You're fine man, no worries.

Arrogant? BAH. I can understand the frustration that comes with attempting to translate feelings or thoughts into words, but that's where the training and craftsmanship of writing come to the fore. It's got a huge learning curve like art. When you're riding the waves through a lot of changes, that makes it even harder to get clarity. You've never come across as either an asshole, nor as arrogant, in any of our interactions, ever. Nor have any of your journals come across that way.

Being creative and being crazy run so close together it might as well be the same horse. That's our gift and our curse. The gift part will always be there and the more you honor it, the more it will grow. The curse part? Believe me when I say you are super-mondo-mega-talented AND you have a distinct voice, something that's very rare no matter how old (or young) the artist may be. Do you have room to grow? Sure. Have you broken promises to yourself? Maybe. Don't let yourself spend too much time excoriating yourself. That self-savaging is wasted energy you could be using to change the stuff you dislike about yourself. It keeps you from being able to learn from your mistakes.

You're going to go as far as you want to in this world. I can't say what the journey will be like; I *can* declare with complete conviction that the world's better off with artists like you in the mix.

What really matters is how you view yourself now and how you want to be because of it. No matter what you were, what you are and can be makes it all really moot, and just markers of how far we've come.
And though I don't talk to you and just creep on your stuff, you've never seemed like an asshole.

sorry to hear that things haven't been going well, I know how that can be, and even how difficult it is to put it all in words
I very much hope things get better soon for you, you're welcome to talk with me any time. take care

thanks, dude.
i'll gladly to take you up on that offer

We all have to change; of course, given that everything we ever do is saved for posterity, there's an obvious temptation to get rid of it all when or if we find ourselves not in sync with evidence that may be confused for us now, when it is really evidence of us then.

I don't think getting rid of anything is necessarily fair to yourself though, but those are my 2c.