If You’ve Ever Thought About Quitting, Read This

I used to think I wasn’t good enough. Turns out, it was just a matter of time before my work got seen.

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I told myself I’d give it one more week. One more post. One more chance to prove it wasn’t a waste of time. If no one read it, I’d stop.

I wasn’t writing for attention. I started because it gave me something to hold onto. I could take all the noise in my head and turn it into a paragraph. And then another. Until the page made more sense than the day I was having.

Eventually, I started publishing online. I didn’t expect much. Just hoped a few people might read it. Maybe it would help someone the way other people’s writing had helped me.

At first, it felt possible.

Some posts got a couple likes. A few readers left kind comments. But most of the time, nothing happened. I’d publish something and refresh the stats every few hours.

Five views.

Two claps.

No reply.

I remember opening a draft one afternoon and just staring at it. I wasn’t tired. And I didn’t have writer’s block, per se. I just couldn’t convince myself it mattered. So I closed the laptop and walked to the kitchen…