Welcome to the end of the 2nd arc of my journals which happens every four (4) weeks, and all the same, Robert Stephen Co here, presenting to you once again my dear reader a Greek philosophy famously exaggerated for its description as someone who is "unemotional", "calculative", and "cold", (again, an exaggeration of the philosophy)  called Stoicism, and how it is related to yet again another one of the things that I have done for this week, that is, fulfilling the request for an increase in the number of people to whom I need to create and edit art digitally.

Regularly, I only edit photos at least once a day. This is because of everyday events that I attend to in which I also have an editing task; but now, there are a lot of additional things that I need to sit on to and take time to reflect on, conceptualize, and layout on my digital screen even though I really am not an artist, a competitive artist per se, I would say I am a mediocre one at best.

This is to say that I have attended trainings and online art lesson sessions during the long pandemic vacation concerning visual communication, animation, and studio arts. however at core, I mostly struggle to draw artistic lines because of my inclination to focus more on logical, rational, and factual shapes, lines, figures, and data than those which require actual passion to beauty and artistry.

Art, however, I know is truly essential, not because of its core beauty, sentimental value nor because of its historical significance, but because of how I see it as an instrument of psychological influence, communication tool, economic and social relevance, and because of how nature itself is a good example of art which is controlled by logic.

This is why I strive to continue using it as a tool for the things mentioned above, a stoic way of thinking, practicing a clear judgment with inner calm on how to use these forms of art not to be attached to but to be used for things that improve self value and maximize on the present because of the inevitability of the future.