Yesterday I decided to start thinking about some ideas that I could approach in my articles, so I could spend most of my Monday writing instead of thinking about what topics I could write about.
To do that, I though that visiting Medium and reading the titles of some articles written by other people could help me come up with something myself.
I was right, and wrong at the same time.
Within 2 minutes I lost almost all my motivation to write, and I just wanted to stop and do something else.
The reason that happened was because the first 2-3 articles I saw on Medium were approaching mediocre subjects like "Technology is bad" or "Our children stop being social" or "The effects our phones have on our kids" and I just got tired of seeing so many dumb people talk about something they may not completely understand.
However, I decided to get over it, and not give a crap.
Thing is, there are a lot of articles on Medium approaching subjects like ancient philosophy, quantum mechanics, theories about life and our "purpose" here, how to evolve, what the future may look like for us and how great it could be, and so on, yet people still look at those mediocre articles made by people who act like they know what they're talking about.
The main reason for that is, I think, because people love drama. People love to see something "bad" happen. People love to see how something's wrong and how their ideas are being verified not by a specialist, but by someone who just writes articles on the Internet.
And those authors know that, and they're probably writing mediocre articles on purpose in order to appeal to those mediocre people who just want to see their ideas being approved by some random dude on the Internet.
It's kinda sad, and it makes me lose my motivation sometimes, especially when I realize that I could literally spend weeks learning about Greek philosophy for example in order to write about that topic, and people would simply ignore my articles and instead focus on things like "Why technology is bad!" or "Why women are better than men" or "Here's an example of what white supremacy looks like" and so on.
It's sad, stupid and, in my opinion, even disgusting.
Don't do that.
Have a little bit of respect for yourself and for the people who may want to read about your opinions on some subjects you're sincerely interested in, and don't write random things just to appeal to the masses. It's not worth it in the long run, especially if you decide, at some point in the future, that you want to share your honest opinions and not what people want to hear.
If you're genuinely interested in those topics, then sure, go ahead, write about them, don't let me or anyone stop you. But don't force yourself to write about something you don't care about just to get some views. You may get what you want for now, but that can simply change in the future and, who knows, the people who's attention you wanted to get may be the ones ruining you.
Just approach the topics you want to discuss and try to form a community made out of people who care about what you do, who have more or less similar opinions and who will support you even when they don't agree with you.
