Why I write this blog even without reader and follower?

One thing that every blogger crave, care and boast about is number of readers and followers they have. Number of follower is proportional to their circle of influence, or atleast assumed that way. Yet here I am, writing, but without followers and readers. It takes buckets of courage to write which I derive from story of astrophysicist and Noble Laurate Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Today, I write this to remind myself of his great story. 

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

Dr. Chandrashekar was a brilliant astrophysicist and remarkable man who achieved stellar success in his field of his interest. Despite his stellar success in later part of life, he worked in relative obscurity when he came up with revolutionary ideas and discoveries because scientist took about 30 years to accept his ideas and works realted to stellar evolution. Despite rejection of his work, scornful remarks from his mentor, and disappointment he faced, he overrode the momentary failure by focusing on subject of his interest which made him Noble Laurate and recipient of many other such awards.
One of most told and loved story of Dr. Chandrashekar is about his lesson on astrological observatory.
"In the late 1930s, at Unversity of Chicago, Dr.Chandrasekhar was scheduled to teach a course in astrophysics at an observatory, 80 miles away from the main campus. Unfortunately, only two students signed up for Dr.Chandrasekhar’s course. It was a time when every professor prided themselves on their popularity and their course based on the number of students registered for the course.
Attendace in Dr. Chandrashekar's class was embrassingly low. Everyone ridiculed, mocked, made fun of Dr.Chandrasekhar’s course. Many thought that Dr. Chandrasekhar would cancel the course, as he had to travel 160 miles for just two students. Dr.Chandrasekhar did not call off the course, because he enjoyed the subject and would never miss an opportunity to learn, teach, explore in depth on the subject. Being a smaller class, the students and the teacher were able to spend a significant amount of time in developing deep knowledge, create new perceptions, explore unmarked areas.
A few years later both the students, T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Later Dr.Chandrasekhar himself got the Nobel Prize in 1983. It became the most successful class in the university — Everyone in the class had won a Nobel Prize."
The greatest lesson I learnt from this story is neither of his success nor the popularity of his students. It is about remining true and focused to what we enjoy doing, what keep us interested, and what keep us inspired and engaged. It is also about gaining courage not be be distracted by what others think of us and not being bother about having or not having followers  because it was only through not being bothered with what others think, Dr. Chandrashekar became one of most remembered astrophysicist in history. 

So, here I am, writing, being a sincere audience for myself and encouraging myself in my own relative obscurity. This is the most exhilarating experience I could enjoy because I have no external expectation, only internal drive to keep the fire burning. It took me years to gain this confidence. I better not lose it now.