Why do what you do?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on why we do what we do. I agree that it's important to evaluate our reasons for participating in certain activities and adjust our expectations accordingly. It's also important to find joy and satisfaction in the process of the activity itself, regardless of the outcome or external recognition. It's great that you continue to write even if your readership has decreased because it brings you pleasure to see words appear on the screen and helps you process your thoughts. Keep writing for yourself and the joy it brings you. Blessings to you too!

The magnificent 7 :-)

@Ken Boddie writing in order to have retrievable notes is a fantastic idea! As for comments and likes, as you say they are nice but not the point. Okay, they do provide valuable feedback so, in that case they are more than just nice. The great unseen other other hand have seemed to be completely passing me by. But in truth that is acceptable. There is significant less stress in not needing to produce consistent home runs.

I wouldn’t be too harsh on yourself, Greg, by looking at so-called numbers of readers. It appears to be a sign of the times that those who acknowledge our written work with ‘likes’ and/or ‘comments‘ may be the tip of the reader iceberg. The great unseen, located beneath the ocean surface, appear to read and even enjoy what we post, but appear to lack the gusto, follow-through, initiative, or is it simply lack the wish for social bonding, to jump onboard and start a comment string. In addition to posting here on beBee, I often republish my work on LI and Facebook. In my interactions with my workmates, many have said how they enjoyed this or that post, which surprises me, as very few of them tick ‘like’ and none of them ever comment. I often wonder if this dulling of SM responses by the great masses is a generation thing, an SM induced attention deficit disorder thing, or merely an engineer/scientist thing. Either way, I personally often tend to write in order to learn via the process of research, and to enable me to have my concise thoughts on various topics documented in a retrievable location. These days, comments are often as rare as hen’s teeth, and a comments string, with interaction backwards and forwards, almost none existent. C’est la vie, n’est-ce pas? 🤔

A thought for you 7 is considered by many as a lucky number.  The number 7 in Biblical terms a symbol of completeness.

Perhaps you have reached completeness as far at what you have said/written so far. 

There is a saying go forth and multiply. In other words keep writing maybe new topics, and  if lucky your following will keep multiply by 7s and soon you will back with many followers.

I find it hard to believe you only have 7 people are following you, they are in the woodwork somewhere.