exhaustion;
internal discomfort;
ping-ponging;
lack of confidence
I was so sure of what I wanted the final student project of my degree to be, having started to think and plan it from pretty early on somewhere way back in 2nd year. But then 4th year comes around and now its time to really start working and deciding on a project, and all the confidence I previously had with my original decision disappeared and I felt overwhelmed from thinking about all the choices I had to make and all the available options I now had to choose from. Honestly, it felt that too much was open and I got lost in it all. I felt as if I was banging my head on the wall, trying to find the best choice for myself, for my idea, for my expectations. Questions start to pop up here and there: “should it be hand-drawn, should it be a movie or a game or concept art, maybe if it’s concept art, should I use a technique I know well or try something new?" and so on. I basically questioned every choice I made, important or not, and when I had finally decided on something, maybe a day goes by and I find myself bouncing back on it and changing my mind at least several times. I really think that I was in a state of intense decision-making stress for probably 2 months, where I moved around my house non-stop just trying “to find the right decisions” as if they’re hiding and waiting to be found, like a game of hide-&-seek. I think what’s really hard for me is that these options aren’t bad options, like there isn’t necessarily an easy way to differentiate between the “good” and the “bad” and so they’re all equally good; my problem is I want to feel confident that I chose the very best and the most right choice for myself, and not just one that is. "good".