What's Next?
A little over half a year ago I decided I was going to remove the vast majority of blog-like content on the website, content that I felt were overindulgent with sharing myself. I kept some of the ones with real thesis, where it wasn’t just pain but “this is what the pain taught me”, or ones where the writing was actually good. Over 60% of the website was purged.
The reason for this is because I was worried that the content on the website, even though anonymous and with details changed for reasonable ambiguity, could potentially lead to harm to those near me.
I have recently gone through a large transition in my life. I’m going to go live in self-imposed isolation for a few months like I did once before. I lived like a monk, no internet, no connection with the outside world outside from a trips to the shops or the gym at night. That set me up for the best years of my life. Well, best and worst.
So I’m going back to that for a little bit. Minus the internet and my job.
When you write something online, you immediately bias yourself by making it something someone else can see. The way this whole thing originally started off was as a blog, a blog I was sure no one would see. When people started reading, it changed the way I wrote. It was a lot of effort to write something as though it was not being read by someone else.
I might still post to occasionally to Twitter, but most of my content will be here. It seems there are still some things I need to figure out, and I am frankly tired of people to the point that even my job is nearly beyond me. Not that I ever had a ‘single thing’ I did, but there will be more personal content for a while. I need to express some things, I need to stop thinking too much that a lot of people are reading what I’m saying. I never really appreciate anything I wrote more than one or two posts ago, so archive it if you want before I nuke it.
Either way, there should be some short stories coming soon. Most of them just need an editing pass.
Take a hint.