You Will Be Discarded

In the 1860s and 1870s, Claude Monet was considered the young and daring leader of the new Impressionists art movement, which rebelliously rejected their predecessors by portraying Nature and the fleeting movements of everyday life in the realistic natural light.

By the 1920s, faced with new modern avant-garde art movements like Surrealism and Cubism, headed by up-and-coming young artists like Pablo Picasso, which seek a deeper look into the somber nature of the human psyche, the now renowned Monet, who was once considered the revolutionary leader against the elite status quo, suddenly was branded “bland and unimaginative” by the same critics who once condemned him for being too unconventional. Monet was now THE elite status quo to rebel AGAINST.

The moral of the lesson here is: no matter how groundbreaking, innovative or ingenious you think you are, there will ALWAYS be someone younger, someone prettier, someone who is perceived as "the new IT"....ready to replace you. ‘Tis the cycle of life.

However, neither one of these men betrayed their true artistic nature to appease the fickle tides of public trends, and both shone in their own ways into timelessness.

Society is cruel. Ignore the critics and do what you love anyway.