I am an essayist... or am I?

On the day I reached one year of daily updates, I updated my profile. It was only a few characters added, but I included "Essayist." at the beginning.

After doing this for a year, one way or another, I felt that my resistance to writing had diminished significantly. While I sometimes think I might not be able to write, I no longer feel like I can't write and it's all over. I judged within myself that it was okay to call myself an essayist.

(It would be more convincing if I had won some prestigious award, haha.)

However, when written at the beginning of a profile, it is usually taken as a "profession." In fact, if I saw "Essayist" at the beginning of someone else's profile, I would think, "Oh, this person is a professional writer."

But I have liked writing since I was a child, I feel like I can find episodes worth writing about in my daily life, and although it's a strange way to put it, I don't feel like I'll lose to myself. Also, I wanted to see what kind of changes would occur if I called myself an essayist.

If I call myself an essayist, maybe things will turn out like this.

・Fewer likes
・Fewer followers
・Less support

...No, I can only predict things that will "decrease" (haha).

Jokes aside, a month has passed since I started calling myself that, and I will announce the changes I feel here.

・Likes → No change (I can't tell)

・Followers → Increased!

・Support → No change (I can't tell)

Originally, the number of likes varies significantly depending on the post and the content of the tags, so I couldn't judge it well. The same goes for support. Since the criteria for supporting vary by reader, it's not something I can easily predict.

Either way, I'm very happy when I receive them, so please feel free to do so without hesitation (haha).

However, strangely enough, I am gaining one follower every day. Not only those who like my latest article and follow me, but also those who like my pinned articles or past articles and follow me.

I haven't verified it, but the response to my travel record posts is good. Next are the posts about books I've read. This is clearly helped by the catchy thumbnails.

I remembered.

I also called myself an essayist because I wanted to explain that I am "only about writing."

For the travel records and book records I mentioned earlier, I ask my friend and fellow noter, infocus, to create the thumbnails. Even if I ask for the draft at the last minute, they finish it with the best sense of style, and above all, they praise me every time, which makes me happy (haha).

When I wrote that I would call myself an essayist in my 365th post, my wife read it and was impressed, saying, "Oh, I see." She meant that continuing something gives you the confidence to write about who you are.

Although it is not my profession, I also thought that perhaps calling myself one out of self-awareness was a step I could not easily take.

Previously, when I wrote about a food truck, someone who read it asked me, "Are you a writer?" That was a fresh surprise.

But, since it says essayist, I suppose that is what I am. It is more like I cannot help but write. I just don't make any money from it (laughs).

I suddenly thought that perhaps now is the time to study properly.

When I searched on Min-Photo, a cool cat appeared, so I imitated the title of that masterpiece, and it ended up feeling a bit arrogant... but it's funny, so that's fine.

#Self-identification #Self-awareness #Continuity #GladIUsedNote #Thoughts