Why Literary Nobody?

Someone asked me why did I choose to call myself Literary Nobody. While I don’t lit­er­ally call myself that as I have a name but I adopted that moniker based on my posi­tion in the lit­er­ary world. I have none. Also I named myself that because I real­ize where I stand in rela­tion to God. He is the only SOMEBODY in my eyes.

Since I started try­ing to break into free­lanc­ing I have dis­cov­ered that it takes a cer­tain amount of ego to really become vis­i­ble. While I pos­sess enough of it to have the nerve to write and think some­one is going to find it inter­est­ing enough to read I have no delu­sions of grandeur. I’m quote-​unquote liv­ing the dream as far as I’m con­cerned. I’m writ­ing and I’m being read. I’m happy for that. Unfortunately we live in a world where any amount of achieve­ment is met with such acco­lades that the sub­ject begins to develop an over inflated opin­ion of his or her self. That’s no good. Reason is we all have the same even­tu­al­ity.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe in myself. In a span of a cou­ple months I have turned noth­ing (my free­lance writer sta­tus) into some­thing. I’m very proud of that. I did it on my own. Motivated myself as well as been my own cheer­leader most of the time. I have a long way to go but my con­fi­dence is up that I can keep pro­gress­ing. I am a big believer in the fact that you CAN do any­thing you set your mind to. My point though is that rec­og­niz­ing your posi­tion– even if you excel at what you do– as a “nobody” will keep you hum­ble.

It always amazes me when I see artists, musi­cians, actors, sports fig­ures, etc talk­ing about them­selves as if the defied the laws of cre­ation and made them­selves into a force that is immune to the things that we all face in life. I am by no means say­ing have low self-​esteem. I’m just say­ing remem­ber that in the grand scheme of things, in rela­tion to the rest of the world, in rela­tion to the one who cre­ated us, we are all nobod­ies. No mat­ter what it is you are pur­su­ing. I try to remem­ber that daily. If we do that we will be “some­bod­ies” where it really mat­ters.