One of the most misunderstood girls in the school, next to the Emo girl, is the Artist. She's the one that will become an art major in college, only to discover that it won't ever pay her bills. She will either continue to be a starving artist, or she will change her course forever and go into web design in Abu Dhabi and make billions.
But to be a starving artist, she must first become completely misunderstood. All great artists are completely misunderstood. No one will understand them until after their deaths, which, if they are lucky, will be suicides, because only that will prove that they were completely understood. Think about it. No one really appreciated Van Gogh until he was long gone. Poor Vincent. And no one took Felix Mendelssohn seriously because they felt that during his posh lifestyle he hadn't suffered enough to have the raw emotions necessary to create decent music. I guess his genius was also misunderstood, but in the opposite direction. Poor Felix. We love him now. We love them both now.
So, Artist girl, you have two choices: become a starving artist in some big city and live a tormented life now, only to become revered later, or you can be completely understood now and make millions doing web design in Abu Dhabi.
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