Why do we create out of heartache, and not out of love?

I think what I find funny, is that I always used to be the type of person that only made art when I was feeling any type of negative emotion. It wasn't until I went to an abramovic exhibition that I realised I don't want to do that. So I started creating things out of my good feelings, mostly from the love I had in my relationship. I made my ex a little zine for his 21st birthday. I wrote about the good, and also the bad. But I was able to create out of positivity, out of the love I had for him. I suppose I find it interesting then, that he never did that himself. Most of the blogs he wrote were personal, which makes sense I suppose to some degree, there are some mentions of me sometimes, but he did not even write a full post on my birthday, which honestly if it were me, I think I would not be able to shut up about writing about what I had planned for him and what we did. Even when I wrote in my personal notebook, a lot of it was filled with excitement and love about him. I suppose he…

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