My current problem with blogging: Don’t feel like it? Yes, but…

I took a long blogging break here, unintentionally. So much is happening all the time, everywhere, on many levels – and ACTUALLY, I would have something to say about many of these topics. So why don’t I do it?

Why don’t I blog about everything that’s going on that leaves me speechless? I have uncried tears inside me, silent screams stay bottled up, somewhere in my core. I have roared with laughter, but didn’t share it either.

The news and this world! It got to me to the point that I had to tune out, but then, that’s not a solution either. Tuning it all out, where would it leave me? Head in the sand? That means my behind would stick out, and that’s not a good position. It could give people the wrong idea.

The economy, the Billionaires, the wars, the hatred, the fanaticism, and so many other isms.

It’s just too much! And it feels like everyone is constantly writing and posting about these topics, not factually and deeply, but in fight mode for or against something or someone. As a result, I feel challenged to take a stand.

I don’t always have an opinion, just thoughts—many, many thoughts. I need time to think, time to digest. I need time to form an opinion. But that’s not how the world we are living in works. It doesn’t give me the time.

I think you don’t have to have an opinion on everything. I don’t want to have to derive a point of view on the Middle East conflict late at night in front of my TV, not even during the day. I also don’t have to dive into foreign trade and import/export restrictions so that I can discuss the tariff threats. It must also be okay not to have (yet) formed an opinion on hot topics such as genetic engineering, animal testing, energy transition, e-mobility, public finances, Ukraine, cryptocurrency, and AI (not the sauce).

And even if you have developed an opinion (congratulations), it doesn’t mean that you have to trumpet it out everywhere. (Pun intended). It would sometimes do us good if some of us would not always express their opinion on every topic. Where does this lead? To huge opinion databases on gigantic opinion servers? And what is different afterwards—let alone better? Nothing. At some point, everyone will be at each other’s throats.

Over the years, I have become an ALL OVER BLOG. I wrote about many topics, including the ones we don’t want to talk about anymore. There are many elephants in the room, and we all (most of us) are tired of them. We are exhausted. Let’s not look at the elephants; let’s ignore them. What could go wrong?

World events are important, but so are the little unimportant things that are going on in my life:

My book got 56 reviews on Amazon. Five months after publishing. Isn’t that fantastic?

I could pay it forward and help a couple that just moved into an apartment, after five years of being homeless (the couple, not me/us, we were ‘only’ houseless).

Our dog Vader is finally doing better. He has been sick, and I caused it.

I finally stood up and asked Thelma to leave my workroom.

I think about my friend in Lebanon. We met when we were six years old. I hope she is safe.

My little narrator studio is ready. My pride and joy—well, one of them.

My friend is in a hospital in Greece. Cancer will take her life, and she will most likely die there. I am fine with it because I have to be.

I read “You with the sad eyes” by Christina Appelgate and didn’t like it, and hate myself for it. She has MS. I have RA. I need to be loyal.

I read “Breakfast with Sally” and loved it. I cried.

My husband needs another surgery, and I talked him into it.

I let two strangers into our home.

And that’s just bits and pieces of my life.

But aren’t all these world events so much more important?

Perhaps the blogging blues is normal and needed once in a while. To rethink blogging. To find your voice—or keep your voice in this beautiful blogging world.

Sometimes (often) it seems presumptuous, ignorant, and selfish to me to write about my efforts to live a healthier life when so much is going wrong. On the other hand, I don’t want to blog about the world events because it’s too much for me right now. The Happy Quitter is a mixed-topic blog, structurally unsuitable, and has no intention of addressing a special interest group. Perhaps I have to allow myself to write about comparatively unimportant things again—after all, no one is forced to read my posts! 🙂

Lately, I have been writing, but haven’t published my posts. I found myself paralyzed and somehow crouched in an impenetrable fog. But yesterday I got a grip on it. I can’t change the fact that so much is happening at the moment anyway. I can’t write about everything either. Above all, I have to take care of myself and keep an eye on my mental health.

It occurred to me that it would also be an option to stop blogging completely. Nothing would change. All points of view, from up and down, have already been written and published. What value could blogging (still) have? What value (if any) does my blog have?

Sometimes I imagine what it would be like if humanity had no Internet for half a year. Where would the opinions be trumpeted then? Into the neighbor’s ear? The market square? Would there be so many opinions at all? Probably not, and the ball would continue to spin.

You know what I would like to do? Write about topics that not everyone is writing about, or try to add new pages to the topics that everyone is writing about. Oh, I make so much sense (nonsense).

Of course, I will continue my blog, but not in bulldozer mode. And I think this change will do me good.

I registered The Happy Quitter today, twelve years ago. Congrats to moi.

I have so much unnecessary knowledge about absolutely uninteresting ‘stuff’. I know some interesting things too. Sharing is caring. Isn’t it? I still care (too much).

This warmed my heart yesterday: