In terms of photography, I don't think it is important to gain notice or be admired by the public. They are definitely "nice to
have", but if you take photos just (or mainly) because of these, something is not working as it should be, and I seriously
doubt whether photography is really a good choice to achieve these to start with. The joy we can get from taking photos
should be more than enough to justify what we put into it, not to mention those invaluable records of all those people or
things important to us, which we will get in the form of photographs. Good photos or even great photos? They are a kind
of lovely by-products that we may get from time to time whilst we keep on enjoying taking photos. Don't have enough
time? I would say let photography follows your life, instead of arrange you life following photography. Use photography
to tell your life's story. Your story. This is one way (among others) to pay your utmost respect to photography in my
opinion. I have no problem that some photographers, especially professional ones, try to use photography as a means to
gain notice or get themselves admired by the public. Fully understandable. But clearly not all of us need to do this.
Actually most of us don't need to care about these.