It’s hard. And I think I am only just learning. To write without being worried or fearing that there are no readers.

Because we are in the age where we can get instant validation for our work, we feel we need to measure or gauge the importance of our writing by how many readers have “viewed” or “liked” or “recommended” our work.

(I am currently guilty of this as I just finished checking my Medium stats and was distraught to see no one had even viewed my story.)

But the truth is, writers in the past just wrote for the love of it. They created work and sent that work out unsure of how they would be received by the world.

Some never even became famous till the day they died.

And then, as instant as switching on a light bulb, their work began to mean something to people. We began to study them. And we now call them the greatest writers of all time.

But before then, before the validation took place, they were just artists creating words. They didn’t let the lack of validation stop them, and neither should we.