Nerd Church - Competing With A Dancing Monkey For Your Attention

Sometimes it feels like I'm jumping up and down, trying to get attention for my writing, my blogging, my whatever-ing...

...only to get lost amongst all of the other people jumping up and down and vying for your attention in an increasingly noisy world.

And on the one hand I think:

 'is my stuff really good enough to be clamouring for all this attention anyway?'

And on the other hand I think:

 'who knows how good my stuff actually is? What I do know is that it's better than some of the stuff that people put out there... Not only put out there, but somehow do well with.'

Ignoring, for a moment, the demoralising aspect of writing your heart out while the metaphorical dancing monkey in the corner gets all the coin, there's a lesson here:

If the dancing monkey's stuff is 'good enough' then mine is too.

While I don't want to add to the *waves hands* noise of the Interwebs and content/media in general in a negative or not-valuable way, I have to remind myself that there is worth in the blogging and writing I do.

It might not be the greatest most-worthiest-est worth and value in the world. I might not be changing the goddamn world with fanfiction recommendations, or chatting about comics.

But... I'm not doing nothing with those posts either, am I?

I like to think they mean something - even if they don't mean everything.

And Lord knows the internet is full of stuff that makes the world a worse place - if I can add something positive, or even just neutral, to the mix... then surely that's good?

And on my own, personal, level - allowing myself to be selfish for goddamn once in my life - why shouldn't I vye for the attention of the world?

If the dancing monkeys and SEO bros and out-right scam artists get to have it, then why shouldn't I?

Maybe the stuff I create isn't the artiest art that ever arted... but it's better than a whole lot of other people's stuff.

And if they get to make a 'success' of things, then I do too.

I'm good enough for that.

Another day, another existential crisis 😅

Do you get what I'm saying here?

Or am I talking absolute gibberish?

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