This is how I look at the world: What is the highest quality thing you can do while you are here?
Discussion
Good questions are infinitely more valuable than even the most truthful and wise answers
This is one of
It became easier for me drop my desires to become a painter when I realized that there were far higher quality works that could be sponsored were I to take up the role of art patron and focus on that instead.
It was after that realization that I felt a strange kind of relief because then I could start branching out into all these other different mediums (egg tempera, mosaic, jewelry, woodcarving, etc.) as a fan and supporter rather than as a practitioner, because I was really curious about them and liked them, but not enough to take them up myself as an art student.
Wise words
Raise a family in a way that makes them want to raise a family.