[mikrl]

On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia. The great Ovid probably lifted ideas and tropes from somewhere else.

Yet all those stories in all their forms still sell today, and still impress people.

Not worrying about unoriginality frees you to just enjoy yourself… and just maybe do something original.