Analogy time: The number of followers and the people I follow is like I'm being isolated, chained in a white room with no doors. All there is to the room in a double sided mirror where I am on the other side, looking into a party in the room next door I was not invited to. The can't see me but I can, and for months, all I do is watch them as my hopes and dreams continue to slip like sand, through the gaps of my fingers.
Boom. Double analogy. Not that anyone would see it. I got no followers! Ain't that great?