Geisha

The Japanese had it right. Geisha. Not an elite prostitute. A living work of art. They were meant to entertain, and to be judged. But, there's this whole other dimension to art. Art is meant to provoke emotion, to make conversation, to spark something. It's the ultimate catalyst, and it is meant to create opinions, to be judged and to make people feel alive and determine something's fate.

I aim to become a geisha in the oddest form possible. I want to be a living art piece. I want every movement of mine, every sparkle from my eye, everything I do to evoke something. To make someone feel, to make someone think. Every breath you take should be a work of art. It not only should be beautiful or ugly, but it should shake people. No one should be able to walk past you on the street without thinking for a minute. If that means behaving opposite the norm, if that means speaking out for what you believe in, saying "Hello" to strangers you meet, so be it. An artistic and creative existence, one with meaning and purpose is the only one worth living.
If people can understand you without even batting an eyelash, without stretching the tiniest bit, they do not need you.

Maybe not an entire existence like this is for you, but it is for me. I want to evoke change. I have the power to change the world, but I have no avenue in which to channel it. It's the worst feeling on Earth. I ask you, that even if you don't want a life of art, if you don't want that exhausting burden, at least make it one moment a day in which you step out of reality, into the realm of the creative, and do something to provoke someone.

Of course, this provocation should be for good. What is art that doesn't make change? How much better is it if that change is positive? Infinitely.