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quitting myself. You know delete all of my entries in the pipe line and go home. In my imagination, the day after I quit is a wonderful, relaxing, joyful experience. I reconnect with REAL friends, walk on the beach, read, listen to music, eat leisurely meals with the Dalai Lama, meditate, maybe go see a matinee, or take a stab at writing a few blog entries shows my peace of mind.
The day after that, bored out of my mind, I start drinking around the clock and quickly descend into a dark, frothing madness that leads to either being institutionalized or liver failure and an agonizing, premature death. The really scary part is that there's hardly a day goes by when I imagine not blogging.
I understand. I've thought about quitting as well because my focus has been off for a while. I still try to put something up once a month, but often times it's something that I've written before to fill the month because I haven't allotted myself the time to work on the posts that I want to put up. Blogging allowed me to make new friends, but I have yet to meet any of them face to face. I want to keep going, but I don't know if I can.
ReplyDeleteI SOOOOOOO would hunt you down if you quit blogging!
DeleteThe day you quit blogging is the day I will...put on clothes! Perish the thought, my blogger brother! Love ya, man!
ReplyDeleteI can't have you wearing clothes sir, NO WAY!
DeleteOn a different site, I once blogged on the daily. It was exhausting, exhilarating, tedious, time-consuming, fulfilling & fatiguing. I began to realize that some folks took it for granted that each day I'd be riffing, prosing, poeting, pondering about something, & I actually stressed over this, as if I were being paid to blog daily, which I wasn't.
ReplyDeleteFor sanity's sake, I had to cease that madness.
Nowadays, I give myself a break & live life. I average about one entry per week. And trust, once a week is plenty for me.
You, you have to do what feels right for YOU!
One.
You are so right, I no longer do the 2 entries a day.
DeleteI still LOVE blogging, but my life is all about balance.
I wanted to quit, but then I just couldn't do it. Over time I realised that though I started out writing for me, as a therapy of sorts, my story reaches out to more, and now I write for the readers just as much as I write for me. I wouldn't be sane if I stopped writing.
ReplyDeleteAmazing how most of us started blogging about ourselves and then it became about everyone.
DeleteKeep doing what you are doing as long as you can do it.
You quit? Hell NO! Cut back, maybe. But quit entirely? Please don't!
ReplyDeleteI am not quitting, I do wonder about my end date though.
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