I’m Not Afraid of you Medium!

Not anymore, anyway.

For a long time, I couldn’t post anything to Medium.

Everything I read on Medium was just too good. I couldn’t get myself to hit publish and put my writing in front of the people who were reading that awesome stuff.

Writing in the safe oblivion of my “self-hosted” personal blog felt less scary. I was secretly hoping that no one would ever read my personal blog. Not knowing what people think is better than knowing that they hate your work.

But this one time, I wrote a spontaneous note about not being a cricket fanatic even after being an Indian and published it. I half-expected to get hundreds of mocking responses about what an idiot I was. But nothing happened.

The note got lost in the sea of amazing medium stories. It was a good thing because it gave me the courage to come back and write some more and not be afraid of appearing foolish.

I’ve realized that getting criticized, even getting trolled is better than not getting noticed at all.

So I’ve decided to keep writing and publishing (what is the point of ‘publishing’ something if you don’t want anyone to read it, right?) until I get noticed and get feedback. Any feedback. Even someone saying “You’re full of crap! Don’t ever write another word again!” would make me happy.

So to sum up, I’m not afraid of you anymore, Medium.

My thoughts are incoherent. I make grammatical errors. I have nothing to say that would be entertaining or helpful to anyone. But I will deal with it with brute force. Write, publish, repeat till I get results.

It’s OK if you don’t “click the little green heart” but if you could leave some honest feedback that would be rad.

Thanks for reading.