Make your life a work of art
There is nothing else you have to do
You have only one obligation in this life. Make your life a work of art.
What is art? Art is craft on presentation. Craft is the work of mixing mind (you) and matter (not you). Papier mâché, programming, paradiddles: it’s anything you produce with intention. Presentation means making a work perceivable to someone who is not you. A lover, an adversary, or kin. A conversation requires more than one mind, and the same is true for art. Art is a form of intercourse.
Don’t worry about being an “artist.” You don’t need to wear a smock. Your craft can be welding, weirding, or wandering. You could be living with depression. You can have a stammer. Any life, in any condition, can become a work of art.
But you must make your craft seen. Practice in private; share as soon as it’s edible.
Recall that you are an assemblage of things that come from not-you. This is why you are obligated to share what you’ve created, yourself, with the community who put you together.
That is the point of this life.
Many will simply live out their memoir rather than publish it. You are already writing a story by being. All that is required is that you let yourself be seen.