Let It Be
Gone are the days when I would draft blog posts in my head and can't wait to come back and write it. Now I come to my own blog and my mind is like the number of comments I get in my recent posts... zero.
I guess we all have to grow up from our life's phases. No more am I the identity-searching teenager, soul searching himself in a public diary for the world to see. Oh, speaking of public diaries, do you remember when the blogging trend first started, blogs then were introduced as 'public diaries'? Who remembers? Those days before the advent of blog advertisements and politically-motivated bloggers. Just hormonally charged teenagers writing their life stories... those were the days. Do you remember them?
Now blogging has become such an accepted technology, particularly more so after the recent General Elections (nyek nyek), that blogs don't even need further descriptions. Nowadays I spend my internet time reading the likes of Jeffrey Quah, Shadowfox and the likes, from Petalingstreet... and not blogging. Well, at least, not as intelligently as them.
I've changed my email address for a more 'professional' image to suit my next career move, away from the wannabe-singer nick I've been using for years and years (... wants to sing). Now it's just my name, and I love it. Wonder why I used to be uncomfortable with who I am that I needed to form pseudonyms and English names. Now, it's just my name, and to tell you the truth, I wish I'd done it sooner. I love my new email. (If you'd like to know, just send me an email and I'll reply you using my new account. Simple, eh?)
Perhaps also, this blog needs a theme change and a new url. Most likely, I will sleep on this issue until my convocation in August which will be the next blog-worthy event. A break for a few months would be welcome too, as I ease into my new workplace... So yeah, a few months' break would be good. Only thing is, when I got something to say and no one to tell, would I be compelled to return to this blog?
Only time will tell. Let it be.
Thought this song matches the tone of this post...
Time is Right
Looking Back at Campus Life
4 comments:
Yeah, blogging can really get you down after a while. It's tough, at first at least, to maintain a high-level of output. Sometimes you either have to force yourself to write (sometimes I just type what comes to mind on the draft when I think I got nothing; you'd be surprised at how much you actually do have to say) or take a short break.
But writing on a near-daily basis is tough. You might want to establish a looser schedule at first (once or twice a week) and maintain that for a while, then see what happens.
Good idea. See here's what I'll do. I will stop blogging for a while and revert to my other past time... my oft neglected guitar, and see if I come back with more stories to tell.
Do keep writing though Jeffrey; I will continue haunting your blog ;)
Hey that's great that you are changing :) . One of the biggest markers of success if finding yourself more self-contented and happy than you were in the past.
Good luck with your journey!
Thank you, Tapir. The funny thing in life is that one needs very little to be self-contented and happy :)
Though I often forget that...
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