Soundtrack: Airplanes by 5 Seconds of Summer
*oh the irony of writing this post a f t e r posting about beating blogger’s block ~hides~
I always feel like I’m apologising on this blog (and in emails to blogging friends) for falling back behind on Internet life. I know I shouldn’t. It’s a blog. It’s shouldn’t matter to me this much, but I do. I feel guilty for not keeping up or in touch with this corner of the Internet. I feel guilty when I’m get home from work and I still have five unfinished posts sat in drafts and I go straight to bed. I feel guilty when I’m out and forget about online life for a day – weeks – I feel guilty for ignoring emails or hide away from the world for a bit.
Is that guilt healthy? Probably not to be honest, but that doesn’t stop me from feeling it.
Now before you all get concerned I’ve been suckered into becoming obsessed with social media or blogging and can’t even go a day without it, or have been seriously affected by the Essena O’Neil story and am gonna go ‘I QUIT ALL THE THINGS BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA IS EVIL’ on you, stop right there.
I don’t care much for chasing numbers (I gave up ever thinking I’d hit the thousands of followers long, long ago) and I’m very much opertate under the ‘I post what I want on here, so suck it up’ kinda mantra. I’ve been very lucky that I feel I can be honest on here. But I guess what this is is blogger burnout. I can’t keep up anymore, or at least I can’t give Wishing For Chanel the love and tenderness it really truly deserves right now. So I guess I’m taking a step back for a while. I don’t know for how long, but I want to siphon my effort into the other neglected parts of my online life (*cough* Feminist In Training *cough*)
So as not to end on a bummer of a note with this, I want to point you on over to Blogger’s Bookshelf. Which has recently turned THREE years old (we have a giveaway and everything, go check it out!). I’m incredibly proud of BB and all the wonderful people who keep it afloat. Seriously I have so much love for all of them, they’re all wonderful, wonderful people who – again – I feel like apologise to more and more recently.
So adieu for now? Who knows I may change my mind on this tomorrow (or maybe you can try talk me outta this/motivate me on Twitter?)
R.xoxo
