Good things come to those who wait

I developed a bad habit during this covid phase that I am sure many of you might have done as well. It was to keep checking the covid stats again and again. The first thing I did after waking up as well as the last thing before going to sleep was to go on https://www.covid19india.org/ and see the number of new cases for the day in Mumbai, and my hometown Jabalpur.

Since I started writing the daily blog again, I haven’t gone on to that site even once. Instead, that activity has been replaced by checking my stats on medium. When I checked the views today, I saw something surprising. My daily views crossed the 1000 mark for the first time ever.

When I started writing this blog, the number of views was never something that I had targeted. I knew I had no reach, and I was satisfied with the half a dozen views I was getting daily from my Facebook friends. Every once in awhile I would get about 100 views in a day, and that would keep me happy for weeks. I would have never imagined getting 1000 views in a day.

For the last two weeks, the views have been increasing steadily. But today was something else. 2000+ views in a day and I have no idea where these are coming from.

I hope this blog doesn’t sound like me patting myself on the back. I know that this still is a pretty small milestone and that there is a long road ahead. What I am happier about is the fact that perseverance does give results eventually. It took me over 400 blogs to get here, but I guess it was worth it.