If you can't fix it, why worry?

     Sadly we have now arrived to the final post on this blog, I know it's sad but hopefully you all have learned as much as I have throughout this process. The overarching theme of this blog has been the idea of not letting the little things get to you, and making sure to keep working towards the things you want. To finalize this blog and keep that theme going, I'm going to tell a little story about perseverance.        Paul Cézanne is a legendary painter in the world of modern art, but if you were to ask him or his peers during the majority of his lifetime they would likely say he's a failure. He developed an interest in art early on (despite the discouragement from his father) and went to Paris to study it at twenty-three years old in 1862. He continued to paint prolifically and hone his craft, working with the likes of Pissarro and Monet , until he was finally accepted into an exhibition over twelve years later in 1874 as well as 1877. This was n...