if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”
It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough
This feeds into the previous couple of posts - I’m happy to get my few likes per story, so it’s funny to see these people complaining “I got 50 likes and only 1 reblog, this is so discouraging”, and then the next person is complaining “I got 200 likes and 50 reblogs but half of them didn’t leave a comment, this is so discouraging”, and I wonder what the threshold for contentment is there.
hey @flowerprose these are really beautiful tags
