@gregly This!

I think people also forget that you won't always know the thing that *is* special when you're starting it or even in the middle of it.

Sometimes you won't know until several years later.

But if you put in the work now you're vastly more likely to find the thing that is special. And sometimes it'll be meaningful to you specifically.

Your creative voice across time to an older you that may have forgotten that thing swept away by time. A you more able to see what it meant.