Aw o diay... si BIB diay to. But that's exactly one of my points... di lalim mag update/sustain one's creative juices. Passion!!! Passion!!! Passion!!! You have to have passion for such as these, dili lang hobby-hobby 
yes! no achievement should come easy. i still remember one article about those young figure-skaters of olympic stature. if ever they make it look easy, it's because they have put in grueling hours of punishing practices and have sacrificed a lot in their growing years. no wonder i was never cut out to be an olympian. i never skated again after my first fall.
quid pro quo is the name of the game. mons. rudy villanueva's grades suffered terribly when he spent most of his waking hours writing as renato madrid. (that's according to my brother, who was a freshman college at the seminary when mons. rudy was a senior).
banana republic cried when michael jackson died. knowing him, i bet he's not familiar with any michael jackson music. but he said, "look at what the guy offered at the altar of his art." hasta ako, cry-cry na lang pod hinoon bisag di mi kaila ni michael.