I can't believe it.
Too many people in this world rely on shortcuts and get-rich-quick schemes. I was also looking for a way to make a quick buck here or there. That's why I first came to Triond. Think about it. Write a poem, people see it, and money is given- from my old point of view, earning money would become a snap as soon as I clicked the submit link for the very first time. Too many people think they can take on the world by themselves.
Everyone has or had someone to guide them in their life, whether one person or a thousand people. I didn't realize that writing has the same properties. In order for the cash to flow in, the content must be read. I thought that as soon as my first poem showed up on the web, I would be piled up in cash all around. I now know that my old perspective of this site and writing in general was wrong.
Once I realized after a month (when I finally decided to see why a check hadn't been mailed to me yet), that no one was reading my content, I got upset but became even more stubborn- I wasn't going to give up. I'm glad I didn't give up, or else I wouldn't be writing this right now. But it took for me to realize that unless you started going out and giving to others: reading other people's works, communicating with other fellow writers, and etc, you wouldn't receive anything in return.
I have had a change of heart and even though I don't see a big, fat check coming to see me in the mail, I will still continue to write on Triond because it is a wonderful site.
Thanks to whomever is reading this right now. For even now, I am still writing. And I just wanted to be real. If I'm real with myself, my poems and writings can become even more real than they once were...
