Stories That Will Change Your Life

My Wattpad Journey

I joined Wattpad with a thought to do some service to God and humanity (Frankly speaking, I felt so foolish and arrogant). Foolish, because I thought people will choose to read my work of all the authors. Arrogant, because I thought my work can change people's lives if they read it seriously.

When I saw some authors having 1k reads, I felt that to be impossible for me to achieve. I saw how readers applauded authors on their wall, many got interviewed for their work, some had a few thousand reads on a book when they started, but within a year crossed a million reads, some even got published. These achievements are not going to be part of my journey, I had thought.

One mindset, however, I kept in my heart back then: Success or no success, my only intent here is to contribute, to give people food for thought.

Even if one person got inspired or try to explore spiritual truths, then this would be my real success.

As I kept writing, my skills started improving. Slowly people started reading my work, and to my surprise, they became highly impressed (trust me, I thought I would get a shower of hateful comments, but so far I got only one out of thousands).

Many appreciated me, wrote on my wall congratulating me, some even said they were inspired to write spiritual stories like me because they thought it's very difficult to get reads on a spiritual genre (actual spirituality, not romantic stories in the name of spirituality). A few popular authors, who have millions of reads on their books, messaged me, appreciating my work. I chatted with them and asked why don't they write something meaningful, deeper, and spread spiritual truths? But they winced with this thought. They told me many are not interested spiritual subject matters and they fear if their readers will turn away from them forever.

Now I have 70k reads on my book, The Krishna Love. While once I thought it's impossible to get 1k, now I won't be surprised if it reaches 100k soon. I know one may say, your so-called achievement is puny compared to those Wattpad Stars, who have millions and millions of reads on each of their books.

Well, like I said, the same thought still ruling my mind: Success or no success, my only intent here is to contribute, to give people food for thought.

Even if The Krishna Love reaches 1m or more. Still, I would have the same thought in my mind. When I didn't have success I stayed neutral, now I have a little, I'm trying to be the same; when I will have immense success, I will try to have same mindset.

So I would like to share a thought with all those aspiring authors in Wattpad, who want their work to be recognized. Keep equal vision even if you get 1k reads or 1m. Keep a higher purpose in your mind. Keep that higher purpose as the source of your inspiration, not the number of comments or votes you get. In my case, I've kept God.

If you nurture expectations in your heart that your books will get millions of reads, popularity, appreciation, interviews, an offer for publication. There's a great probability you won't get it, even if you truly deserve it. Yeah, I know it's unfair and discouraging because that's how the nature of the material world is. Things are not always in our favor. And seriously (excuse my language) there are shitty books which have millions of reads, do you think people respect them? I don't think so.

However, if you keep a higher purpose in your mind: to get respect than popularity, to change lives than corrupt lives, to become an instrument of change and positivity than creating negativity. If you keep this mindset than success or failure won't make any difference to you. You will feel truly content. Like, yeah I did something that the whole world fear to do, I swam against the tide. And believe me there are many incredibly successful people, who have no contentment in their life, frustration and depression are their BFF. Want their names?

Anyway, thank you for reading.