It's time for me to take a break from blogging so I can pursue a couple of projects that demand a lot of my time.
Before bidding you all adieu, I'll blab a bit about myself. (Isn't that what blogs are for?)
Over the last 4 years I've had 3 blogs. Keeping a blog was really nothing more than my attempt to write frequently in an effort to retain my ability to write at all. And the reason I write at all is because I think no one is listening to me. This view stems from the years of living in a really horrible household while I was being raised by my parents. No one would ever listen to me so I started writing (sometime in grammar school) and kept writing through high school and when I turned 20 I started to write short stories. By the time I graduated to writing short stories I had become consumed with a burning need to write. I used to write all the time and when I wasn't writing I was thinking about writing. Then somewhere in my mid-20s I decided to stop writing. Then in my late 20s I picked it up again and I found that I was a better writer. Then in my late 30s I gave up creative writing (the last short story was finished right before I underwent a life saving surgery). About a year or so after the surgery I started blogging.
Right now I'm undergoing a spiritual shift and I feel it best to put the writing on the back burner and delve deeper into this new stage of personal development. I get rather feverish around personal growth and I've always been this way. I'm never happy to dabble and even if I tend to plunge headlong into activities that might not interest anyone else on earth, I figure, "it's my life and I'm going to live it as I damn well please. " So the writing's just got to be ignored for a bit.
For the past 2 months I've been vegetarian. For the upcoming 4 months I plan to fast from sugar and alcohol. These fasts are meant to allow me to push myself further in terms of meditation and visualization. I feel great after giving up meat. I have a feeling that laying off the sugar -- while it might be a bit disconcerting in the short term -- will pay off huge dividends in the long run. And there's nothing wrong with dividends.
I want to thank everyone who's sent comments and emails remarking on the blog/s. A few people seemed to get something out of reading the blog and while I'm not trying to create any gaps in people's blogging diets, I've just got to head into the unknown. Lately I'm in search of Beyond the Beyond. (As you can imagine, that's pretty far out there.)
I hope that you will keep the following in mind:
1. Life is short, choose wisely
2. Be as kind to yourself and others as possible
3. Believe in yourself (and after you get your head and your heart in tip-top shape) then you should REALLY believe in yourself.
Be good.
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