There, I said it out loud! Yes, I want to be popular on this blog. It's one of the reasons I spend my time and effort here. I want hundreds of people subscribing to my site, because that means there are hundreds of people who care about what I think. I want as many people as possible to look at my screen name and think 'hey, I like him', or 'hey, he makes me think', or 'hey, what he just wrote helped me'.
It's true. If I just wanted somewhere to get my thoughts out in writing, I would use my Microsoft Word and save it to my hard disk. But I didn't come here, I don't spend so much time here, just to write down my words. I came here to socialize, to get to know other people all over the country, all over the world, and let them get to know me. The ONLY way to do that is to be popular. I know that, I freely admit it. I'm an attention whore.
I write on a variety of topics, in a variety of styles, purposely. Sometimes to entertain, sometimes to inform, sometimes to share, sometimes to invoke thought, in order to reach as many people as possible. Often, I will write with one or a few specific people in mind, first to get a message to them. Second, because I know that there are many people who read those people, and if they comment, perhaps their readers will come and look at what I wrote. I'm not ashamed to admit that fact. But always, I write with the thought of wanting as many people as I can get to come and read my posts. I want to have one or two of those posts with 500 views and 200 comments! I want to break the 100 subscribers mark!
But I don't want these things just because I'm an attention whore. I want these things because I think I have something to say that is of value to other people. I think I have stories that many people will enjoy reading. And I think I write pretty good poetry too. :-) And I do all of this for the enjoyment and edification of other people, not for myself. That's why I have chosen a public forum to write these things in.
Yes, I want to be popular. Is that such a bad thing?
