.  - TRYING TO TALK SOME SENSE INTO ME... . THEM: "Ross," "With your self-destructive, self-absorbed, self-sabatuaging, 'piss on them all' attitude, " "You will never succeed as an artist or as a writer." "No one will ever want to either know you or your work" "You will fail" "You must know this?" "You can not succeed" . ME: "I no longer care" . THEM: "Why?" . ME: "Simple" "I now acknowledge the truth" . THEM: "What truth!" . ME: "I now know that I will never have anyone special worth being successful for" "- 'I', alone, am not reason enough" (Shrug) "I now accept the reality" "Being 'loved', is not 'who I am' -" . THEM: "Then why keep bothering to publish and push your art or words at all?" "Why no just leave us all alone?" . ME: "Because creating is not 'what I do...