Social Asphyxiation

[UNZARI]

how do i stay positive when i have become mostly introverted yet my job and social life keep demanding so much?

i still make my art, in fact im making a small art book about this feeling of suffocation right now as a sort of therapy when i get off of work. it just all seems so overbearing. i dont want anything handed to me, in fact i want to just be left alone. i understand logically that i must build a source of sustainable income maybe from my art to be more free.

but my heart says NOW. like every day i go to work it seems like im wasting my life, like its all a sham moving nowhere. my heart wants me to do some sort of leap of faith where i make art all day, but i know that could mean homelessness. i would say its moreso just intense feelings of dread and this suffocating-like stress feeling.

what a rough period. any advice?