[Kevin Fanning, writing about failure and passion](http://kfan.tumblr.com/post/45910246222/ok-by-now-youve-seen-this-article-in-the-onion):

>Maybe the self-obsessed celebrity artist culture isn’t that helpful or useful. Maybe eventually we get to a place where we see that books and music and art are created by us, people who have school and day jobs and other shit we care about.

I encourage you to read this post, especially if you are feeling like you have failed to find your calling. Fanning is spot on.

I work a lot, more so now than ever in life. I’ve never thought, or felt particularly successful in a general sense — more often I feel like am failing or close to failing in some aspect of my life…