Wa-alaikumus salam wa rahmatullah,
Inshallah, someday I will share the poetry of my baby sister. You writes awesome.
Writing a poem requires a great deal of time, which unfortunately is not available for many New Yorkers.
I agree with you on your last point.
That's why we should try our best to please our Creator rather then the Creation. If our Creator is pleased with us, then inshallah we are successful both in the world and in the akhira.
On the other end, if we try to please his creation (humans) then we will never be appreciated to the extent that it should really be appreciated.
But it doesn't mean that we become anti-social.