don't cheer for me the "artist" appreciate me the person

everybody makes art or chooses not to do art for their own reasons. my friend took me out for coffee and told me to never stop doing art and to nevver stop being me. I appreciated his positive compliment. I've been thinking long and hard about myself as an artist. And I wish people cheered for me as "me" not the label "artist", because everyone is an artist. and it doesn't make sense to me how you can say you have been an artist for "x" amount of years. it is what you are. one artist can paint 1,000,000,000 paintings and another artist can only work on 2. I only know who I am and I define what I become. I truly believe for whatever I do as a curator, as long as there is still an opprotunity for people to create and display art and I somehow was at one point doing artshows for that particular person and now that person is doing artshows for the same reason to help other artists show their work and inspire others and to watch another face smile. Then I think a part of me will be apart of the continuation of something I believe to love.