On A Pause

So, this blog hasn’t had much activity in quite a while, it’s kind of just stayed dormant as my life has gotten sucked up into a million distractions. I’ve been meaning to update it with a post, an essay, a musing – but something else would always come up, and that thought I absolutely had to get out there would always slip away.

Well, I’ve found, at last, a time and a place to put up another piece of my thoughts on this page, and in doing so I’ve had to have a bit of a think as to why I’ve procrastinated this for so long. I mean, I honestly love putting stuff up on this page and curating it for anyone who happens to stumble upon it. Hell, I enjoy it over a lot of the other things I do to pass the time when I do reach the eye of the storm that is the IB curriculum (help).

So, why the pause? I honestly don’t know. I guess a possible reason could be that it’s simply easier by definition to choose a pastime that requires 0 creative effort, like video games or watching Youtube. I mean yes, I do learn and gain from these in my own way, but it’s a lot less effort than creating something out of nothing. Another reason could just be essay fatigue – having worked on drafts and redrafts of my own and others’ college essays, it got a bit frustrating trying to continuously frame myself between the margins of a writing section portal, to make endless lists of edits in red text on endless word documents.

But maybe these sorts of things don’t really have an explanation. The waxing and waning of passions and interests is a process that you can either rebel against or ride along with, and I suppose that I chose the latter in this case. Nevertheless, I’m back, and I think I’ve got some of that old zeal back for expressing myself through this medium. Poetry pieces will likely be few and far between henceforth, as I’ll be focusing more on short essays and musings in this kind of form, conversations with myself that I put up for anyone to see.

For those of you who’ve stuck around for so long, I hope the wait’ll be worth it, and I’ll hopefully have some more stuff up soon.