There’s no point in doing something that’s already been done before. Even if it’s only a bit similar to your idea or the idea starting point is the same but you were going to do something different with it. Still don’t do it because then you’re copying someone else and that means you’re probably a fraud. We should all be completely unique, like snowflakes.
It doesn’t matter that loads of people have done it, they’re all frauds too. Well except the person who did it first. Don’t be like them, no one wants to be like everyone else.
Oh you had the idea independently of the others and wouldn’t have known about it if it weren’t for Google? Thank God for the internet saving you from your blissful ignorance. Now you can go back to doing nothing and waiting for that next big idea to find you. Thanks internet!
It’s too bad that Picasso didn’t have access to Instagram, I would hate to have been the one to break it to him that zillions of people had already drawn bowls of fruit. How embarrassing, he probably felt very silly after.
Remember to stay inside and don’t put yourself out there.
– Hati
PS. Here’s a drawing of a lobster riding a bike in the winter. I wasn’t going to do it at first because it turns out there are a surprising amount of drawings of bike lobsters on the internet (although often the season is undefined). But really, what’s the harm in another drawing of a lobster riding a bike?
Let’s not worry about being a unique snowflake, just do!
Hati Whiteley 