The Importance of Recognizing Art

A friend of mine spent most of the weekend making two paintings. Once it was done she texted me, and asked if I wanted to see them. I said yes, just to be polite. I'm not a big painting person, so I really didn't care. I took a cursory look at them and only responded with "Wow. Those look amazing." It was a very generic answer, but it did look impressive. After a while of her not responding (I thought she had seen through my not caring) I took another look at the painting. After studying it for a while, I began to notice subtle details in the two paintings. It moved me. This painting a college student made moved me, and I was just going to ignore it. After some time I gave her a possible title for the paintings and then gave a pretty lengthy analysis about how I came to that title. After a few minutes I got a call from her. . She told me thank you for analyzing her paintings. It sounded like she was crying.

Now why bring this up? My father has never seen the point of my analysis of various TV shows and comics because he doesn't see anything there. That I should really just keep to things with actual depth. My friend's reaction to me talking about her paintings was the perfect reminder for me to why I do this. When you put your heart and soul into a work of art (whether it be music, a short story, or a painting) one of the worst things to happen is to be brushed off. To be basically told that 'Ya, it's fine, but it's not really important or worth looking into. It's not like it has depth.' is something that can sting even more then being told your work sucks. Because being told your work sucks at least means that they looked at it long enough to get an opinion. 

I sadly was almost in the same group of just not caring about art, but I'm glad I took a second look. Because I took that second look, I not only got a great sensation of hope from the images, but I also helped a young woman know that her art touched someone. Hopefully this will allow her to keep creating and keep inspiring emotions.

The Yes/No option

I was hanging out with some friends earlier today and the topic of conversation came to the yes/no option in games. I should clarify I don't mean an actual choice in games. I mean the yes/no option that won't let you continue with the game until you say yes. Once this was brought up the logical question to about, Why would that exist? After thinking about it for a while I think I've come up with two answers.