Everyone has pressure on them, some might have too much, some might have barely any, but we all have it. My pressure lately has been about writing a good article.

It's the pressure to write good articles after you wrote two that all of your family and friends are reading. Even completely random strangers who follow Odyssey on Facebook, and saw them post your article.

I am so grateful for this, so don't get me wrong!

It’s hard to explain because even though you’re not viral like Victoria Higgins (which if you don’t know who that is then done you even read the Odyssey online?), you still had a lot of shares and over 3,000 views.

Like, what??

I never thought that many people would read just one of my articles, nevertheless 2 of them within a week of each other getting that many views!!

I can’t even explain all the words going through my head about having so many people relate to my articles. I love seeing that people love their boyfriend or husband, or whatever he is to them. Both of my successful articles were about relationships, so I feel like that’s what people want to read.

I mean I wrote other ones months ago about relationships that don’t even have anywhere near 1,000 views, and that’s ok!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m appreciative of the views I get on all of them because people took time out of their day (even if it’s just a few minutes) to read something I wrote.

I get to express my thoughts through writing, which I love.

I just feel this pressure to write articles that people want to read because I got to have that feeling of freaking out when my editor tagged me in a post that the Odyssey posted.

I finally felt successful.

I had someone at HQ email me saying how great I’ve been doing. Like, they noticed me?! All the way from New York, they read my articles and loved them.

I still can barely fathom that.

I want to put out what the people want, and that’s so much pressure. It feels like there’s a spotlight on me, even though there’s not. Maybe that’s just me being so self-centered, but I don’t want to let people down that were so proud of me.

After racking my brain for the perfect article ideas of what to write next, I realized a few things:

1. I can’t impress everyone.

2. If I want more attention to my articles, write about controversial things.

3. I’ll just stick to writing about things I care about, and maybe other people will find them interesting, too.

4. The only person I need to impress is myself.