Play count doesn't mean anything.
I have much higher play count than you, which doesn't bother me as I know I'm improving when I really try and don't SS random stuff (I do find this fun though). If you look at the top 50. There's people with over 100k playcount in there and then there's the people that's pushing 200k to stay in there.
Now I know that you may be thinking "Well muffin, playcount is meaningless when you get that high"". The fact is some of these players wouldn't even be in the top 200 with higher playcounts than some of these people have. If playcount mattered so much, these players would just quit and hope Scarlet Rose never enters their recommended videos again.
The only people that would ridicule you for your play count would be people outside of osu that sees it as a meaningless waste of time, before working 100 hour weeks to earn money they never have any time to spend. (Okay, most aren't that bad but the point is don't care what these people think).
However these are the same people that would be stunned to hear you had a 500 playcount. So most of us would be doomed in that case.
At the end of the day improvement in osu isn't what you're going to be judged on. Getting a job, buying a home etc is. So enjoy the less important things rather than stress over them.