Comment by antithesizer

Writing, making music, making art, and engaging with the public in any way is almost always a waste of time. So unless you want to keep it up even in light of knowing that it's a waste of time, you should stop wasting your time. If you have to arduously convince yourself over and over that "this is important" or if you require the affirmation and reassurance of constant positivity-oozing social media followers to keep going, then you should not keep going. If it's not an end in itself for you then you need to reckon with the fact that there will certainly be nothing for you in it except the thankless task itself.

That may sound depressing but there are other things in life that absolutely are worthwhile in these ways. Helping people is generally a better goal in life than self-expression is.