Well for me it does. Creating for an algorithm drains creativity. Recently I have been thinking about my life. I’m in the middle of half of a century and I work at a high school’s main office. After work I’d like to come home and just draw. I don’t want to set up a camera or pose for the perfect angle while I draw. I just want to create.

I don’t want to worry about lamps, temperature, lighting or filming equipment, likes or engagement. I want to be present and fully engrossed with my flow state of creativity.

I don’t know if it’s abnormal at my age to need an excuse not to use my phone or be on a laptop all the time. My excuse is I want to live before I die. When I’m switching between filming and making art I feel drained and unproductive. Why? Because when I look at the time that’s passed while filming and editing I see a considerable chunk of time that I could have used to make dozens of Art pieces.

It’s like I stopped living for a minute except it’s not a minute it’s been a few hours. Has anyone ever stolen something from you? It feels like I’ve been stolen from. If time is life, well serving algorithm feeds literally eats it away. And what’s it worth? Less creativity.

For those who have benefited from feeding social media and are successful I wish you continued success. I hold no grudges, I hold no hate. And my stance is not to discourage those who wish to use social media as their tool. It’s not for me. I don’t want to be glued to a timer or special position for an algorithm. I just want to enjoy my work, be in touch with my surroundings and live fully.

Next year I’ll be going to school to study art education for a few years. I’ve already applied and I’ve been accepted. I chose visual communication and painting. And my mastermind plan is to paint more, draw more and create more. I want to build a monumental portfolio so when I get there I’ll be a good long ways ahead. That way I can focus on other goals while I study. Not chasing an algorithm, likes, views or comments.

I just want to be a human being so deeply, I kiss the era I was not born into, my parents were too young to have made me yet. And I kiss it like I wish to have met a few great dead people, Carl Rogers, David Schwartz, Jim Rohn etc. Turns out I was born years later into this period of what feels like a hole. I wonder what advice they would give me if they were here living in the here and now.

In the evenings after work, when I’m settled in, I sit and draw anything I want. Outside of being ambitious I don’t have any other special reasons really. Except I want to create as much as I can before I die. I want to live fully, and when I’m not thinking of the future or the state of society, creation is a place where I want to live. Nothing can take that away from me, especially not some time eating machine. Nothing; not social media and not the algorithm.