Genuinely needed to hear this. I consume those like I need them to survive, but the fact is: I'm seventeen, and mostly healthy -- physically, anyway. So, the chances of me dying any time soon by forces outside of my control are slim. I have my whole life to build an audience, so I just need to chill, keep posting, and let the numbers come on their own... instead of trusting advice from people who have no idea what my content is in the first place. Thank you for writing this.

I think part of it is that one of my worst fears is to be stuck at a 9-5, doing the same routine over and over for the rest of my life. I don't want to waste my life moving through days like a mindless drone. So, when I see I'm not successful right now, I worry that that is my future. It's definitely a cognitive distortion... which I should work on.