23F and seriously considering long distance relationship nowadays

hahah well i still have some comments to make on your stickers. Hmmm I think they could be better like in this sketch I made

https://i.imgur.com/2LDzJJX.jpg

and this poem I wrote while thinking about how you could improve the aesthetic and sell more stickers. I was already looking for black and white art to try and learn from and I found your stickers very interesting to think both about black and white art and also the concepts and dichotomy of life and death. They were super useful to spark my creativity somewhere new it had not gone before as I usually work in super bright colors. I know I don't have a shot since you don't make bad decisions, and I am among the worst hahah, but it was an interesting and productive study in art for me, hahaa.

Though I know my pencil drawing is shitty but I meant to look more like a painting I'm working on so you get a better idea of the crowding of plants.

https://i.imgur.com/pUZg7Rx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1ddgkKu.jpg

Hmmm I got this done in 40 minutes, not bad.

Consider the Beautiful Skull

Life and Death
Good and Bad 
or so they say

But when we pray
To the God or Gods
Or Spirits or 
Whatever maybe your fancy
We ask a few things
Contradicting this
We ask them to help 
With life so that 
We enjoy it 
Til our end

But that implies 
Already 
Quite a Quagmire of Cognition

Is the beauty in life
not just beautiful
Because of its time frame?

Because it is not permanent
Do we see every second 
Every minute as valuable?
As the clock of life ticks
We fear we lose more and more seconds!

The saying
"I did nothing yesterday,
what a wasted day"
Implies the value of time wasted

Like the children in make a wish
We make them happy 
As happy as possible 
Because robbed of their adulthood 
by nature
Man steps in to make up for the lost time

So is death even that bad?
I think not.
In the forest
The sapling trees grow 
from other dead rotted trees

Trees nourish themselves 
Incestuously from
Their own falling leaves too
Decomposing over their own roots
Re-nourishing themselves in the process

But what about Humanity?
Is it just insanity?
Insanity to have fears of the end?
I think it is
We fear not that the end is coming
we only fear that 
We were too lazy to do the things we wanted
That we were too busy with work
or societies pressures
to have ever lived a true life
Sometimes not even a single day
Is lived by some people

Instead of just a wasted day
Most people have simply lived
" an entire wasted life"

And we fear not the end
But only the conclusion of analysis
We fear the conclusion that
We didn't use our time wisely
That we didn't enjoy ourselves enough
Not enough happy crammed
Into the rotating hands of the clock
So we are sad

But what is even enjoyment
But a mere passing fleeting moment?
The joy to enjoy?
Does it even matter?

I say yes.
I CAN matter
Properly managed
We can enjoy indulgence
and splurges on the credit cards
but they are temporal
and merely temporary

Then what of the future instead?
I don't know about you
But I find a simple joy
In helping others
Hoping my positivity 
Will be the next great disease
That can't be stopped by any face mask

Positivity that is infectious
A positivity that will positively pass
Even passed the chances of a mask it passes
As positivity that will pass
not really measurable with a test
like a virus
and probably not noticed by many
that they were infected at all
by my original virus
but i hope it will never be cured

I hope that I am the great oak
and when my tree dies
I will have scattered enough leaves 
to the wind to spread 
and help other saplings grow
instead of just onto my own roots 
like a selfish Republican

So I don' think I should fear death
For I will not die completely
My virus of the positive
and disease towards the helpful
that i first spread to those
i helped selflessly
I hope it is spread 
from forest to forest
and in my doom
I'll be without gloom
knowing even passed my own end
that I had lived a life 
worth living 
a life whose effects 
will continue to echo in the wind
even if my existence ends
Because I did use my time wisely
So I have nothing to fear
Absolutely nothing to fear 
From my beautiful rotting skull
It'll just be fertilizer for
The next set of trees and plants 
that grow above my resting place
Their tendrils ever spreading 
and wrapping around each other in peace
and their root wrapping around my rotting corpse
being further nourished
being further fed even after my end
all because of my original contribution
What was my contribution?
To simply live as a proper human being
Trying every second, though sometime failing
But trying my best anyways to view the world
Through a beautiful lens of Love and Compassion
And to help others whenever my ability was adequate
adequate to the task at hand
A properly loved life, 
A properly loved life of loving others
is nothing to fear the end of
Instead the beautiful skull should be rejoiced!
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