aww thank you so much! ^^

So, in short (because i can never just write one post, can I?), keep doing what you love. And keep sharing it, too, if you are so inclined. Someone loves to see it.

Remember why you do it.

Sincerely,
1 very small potato 🥔 :)

When you remember that those numbers represent real people (excepting the bots of course, bleh :p), you start to feel a little bit better. At least, I know I do.
...

Now, how about just 1 potato?
🥔: "Wowie! That was so good! I want to see more of this. Here's a like or a comment or a follow."

Does that not lift your spirits??

Okay lol, stupid analogy ^^;

But, still...

A couple hundred views on a post may be small potatoes, and only, say, 14 likes a poor compensation for your hard work, but that's 14 potatoes who said, "heh, nice. 🥔 👍" and how cool is that?

Now, of course, there may be many reasons to give up on something, to pause or reconsider. Good, healthy reasons, too, sometimes.
But please, don't let numbers alone be that reason ...

Whatever it is you do, someone doesn't want you to stop. Even if that someone is you right now – even if it's you forever – keep going. Do what you love. Remember why you create.

Because, whether it's 1000, 100, 10, or 1, someone somewhere wants to see the things you do.
So, make your music – dance, draw, paint, sculpt, craft, sew, write, speak, and sing!

Wrestle with it, hold out until you subdue it.
Bonk its nose with a skillet and watch it retreat.
Remember why you create ...

Even tho i know he probably wasn't being serious and was just trying to either gross people out or put them on the spot for fun, part of me hopes someone bought the eel...

Another thing of note, on our way back to the car and to find a late dinner, we passed a kid (jokingly, I think) trying to sell us an eel he'd just caught right there for 50c, and when that failed for 10c. Sorry to say, we had no cash on us, nor were we THAT desperate for dinner ^^;

Let this thread stand as a reminder to seriously reconsider posting snippets of long, convoluted shower thoughts when I'm overtired lol ^^;