When I started this blog I set out
to share the good things and the bad things and now I’m about to share a ‘bad’
thing I hesitate… It’s hard to share when things don’t go as planned.
As some of you might know I’ve been battling a burn-out for some time now.
First I continued to work but after
a while I had to stop and when I did, I started to fully comprehend how bad I
was doing. Back then I wasn’t even able to do art, I wasn’t able to do much of
anything.
Just recently the tax authorities
got wind of me not making much money and I got invited for an appointment at
their office. The burn-out had made sure I didn’t make much money of my art and
couldn’t spend much time on my art either.
Because of that they ended up taking
away my fiscal entrepreneurship status and they will be checking up on me in
2017.
The appointment was last week and I
felt very bad after that. It took me a few days to feel better but yesterday I
had a little help putting me in my place again.
The lady I had the appointment with
called to run through what was said earlier and explain her findings. She repeated
once again they would check up on me in 2017 and she added, because they were
not very convinced any significant progress would be happening.
I’m sure the lady didn’t intend or realize
it but these words felt like a right kick in the face.
But hey, ‘sticks and stones’, right?!
