My Story Went Viral and Freaked Me Out

I had a hard time processing it.

If there are two things I know about the world it’s this: 1) People will roam the Earth lacking necessary information on certain subjects to speak about them in a rational manner. 2) This won’t stop them from running their mouths.

If there is one thing most people know about me it’s this: I don’t suffer fools.

As you can imagine, this is not always a good combination. I slap my palm to my forehead a lot. This combination is the genesis for a lot of my writing.

It’s not my desire to be right. It’s my desire for people not to be ignorant.

I wrote a piece this week about New York’s abortion law. It was written out of concern that the world thought a significant amount of mothers are just crazy baby killers who are too irresponsible and indecisive to actually handle pregnancy and want to throw babies away willy-nilly. That mentality is ignorant and angers me.

I hit publish and felt very good about the piece. I went to work and about my day. I checked in on it a few hours later to see if it was curated by Medium. Nope.

When I got home, I checked my stats. Something happened. What the hell…