It Still Feels Good To Be Chosen for Further Distribution
It makes me feel I'm still doing something right.
When the one thing that makes you feel OK feels like it is slipping through my fingers, and I'm talking about writing, I feel lost.
I'm back at trying to figure out if writing is really what I should be doing when, to be honest, it doesn't pay for my bills, but I'm not blaming the algorithm changes, nor would I demand that Medium do better because I know how to take full responsibility.
It is useless even to think about what I can do to be a famous writer or write the next viral story.
Yesterday, I just wrote, like how it was when I was starting, regardless of whether people like it, I would write because I love to share what I know, what I feel, and what I discover.
It was something that got me curious, a story I also read, a story that came to me unexpectedly.
It was a story about MSG, a food additive that enhances the taste of the food we eat, and how it came to me is by watching videos by Uncle Roger, a YouTube sensation, who became famous with his egg fried rice reviews, even his story is a story in itself.
Uncle Roger, who is Nigel Ng in real life, is a comic who found himself going viral for a reaction video he made when watching a BBC video on fried rice. He has since made a career of it.
Why Chinese Restaurant Syndrome Shouldn't Scare You, Because It Is All A Hoax
And yesterday, I was able to put it all together, a story of how MSG became an additive most of us will not add to our food, but the truth is, even our bodies produce glutamate, and while it can still be true that some people can have an adverse reaction to MSG, the incident that leads many to believe that it is terrible for your health started as a wager and that the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome is nothing but a hoax.
Chosen for further distribution
When I woke up today, I saw this on the stat page, while it only has a few views, which is less than ten, after I self-published it.
It was chosen for further distribution in four topics, and it has been a while since any of what I wrote was curated, much less to be curated in not one but for big topics: Food, Health, Science, and Equality.
I take it as a sign, a nudge from heaven to continue my writing journey.
And as I said before when I was starting, money isn't the only stick to measure my success as a writer, and that I should not doubt myself that I can write, and that I still have stories waiting to be written, and that the magic continues as I weave words into a story that I can call my own.
