You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows. . . and has always known. . . that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.
I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.