really is disheartening how big success stories about how a single person made a super intricate critically acclaimed game (or any sort of large scale creative project really) and things like that kind of ended up being the main golden ideal to work towards for small creators, at least in the creative circles i tend to hang around in. i and a lot of other people i know ended up just being kind of miserable toiling away at overscoped personal projects thinking "this is too much work for me to reasonably do and there is such a high chance i'll never complete it but because these random guys were able to do it then surely having a hard time is just a Me problem and i can simply push through it" only to suffer the Effects when that inevitably does not simply work. Finally stepping back and realising "oh shit, wait, literally every sane person who does what i'm trying to do has a large team and a lot of money backing them, i shouldnt actually expect me to be able to do any of this shit" somehow made me feel unbelievably free and calmed down even though it still doesnt really get me any closer to having a project done on account of not having those resources either way. I think just losing the expectations that surely you can just roll the boulder up the mountain lets you finally just go "oh yeah, i literally dont have to be rolling this in the first place" or whatever and you can just roll the boulder recreationally whenever you feel like without success as your goal or just leave it alone entirely. Or whatever
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