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Why We Create
A story for anyone who wants to put something good out there
I was feeling a little down yesterday. I’m a self-employed software engineer now at the stage of trying to market my soon to be released cooking app. Like most, I’ve been met with many rejections and well-meaning discouragements. Most people say that this market is already saturated and it’s gonna be hard to make something of it.
So I asked myself exactly why I still want to create and release my own apps. I thought about it for a day and here’s some thoughts that I just wanted to pen down over here. Not just why I think I want to, but also why I think other people might too.
We want to. We need to.
I’ve always admired the spirit of obsessively, maybe even obstinately creating something. Especially when its distilled to the purest form of wanting to do it just because.
I feel like creating keeps me sane. Of course I want to earn money from doing it because realistically I need that to have other good experiences in life (and also avoid bad experiences without it). But when I sit down and try to create something, my relentless mind seems to calm down a little. When I slip into the rhythm of being in a “flow” state, I enjoy seeing what’s tangled up in my mind materialize before me. It’s a moment’s break…
