To Blog Or Not To Blog
When I was in high school I played on the tennis team. For three years I was the number one player. It felt good being number one. It felt good having people compliment you. But all of the praises and admiration did not matter my senior year. On my senior year in high school, I just didn’t want to play tennis. Simply put, I was burned out!
For the past 5 days, I felt like I had a blogging burnout.
Every day, I would login to my blog and I would stare at the blank screen on my “write” page. I had plenty of ideas to write about but I could not bring my self to write. I wanted to write but somehow the ”write you lazy bum” messages from my brain weren’t reaching my fingers.
I visited my friends blogs to get inspiration but still, nothing…
I decided to jump in the mix and to start commenting again, but I couldn’t do it. I was “comment shy.”
Since I couldn’t find anyone who is a certified blogging therapist, I did some self-reflecting to figure out what’s going on with me. I discovered that everything is out of sync. Work, family and my project expectations have finally caught up with me and they are all kicking my royal butt.
I’m usually pretty good at handling multiple things. In fact, I thrive on pressure and stress. However, I realized that there’s a big piece missing. Whenever I’m under pressure or under stress, my family was always physically there to keep me going. But this past few weeks, this was not the case.
Now the question is how I got myself to write again. The answer is very simple. With the exception of my wife and my youngest who are still back in the Philippines, my other children are back.
Yes, the house is messed up and crazy again. Dishes are already all over the place, all the lights are turned on even though they are not being used, and teenage bodies litter the living room.
Yes, things are coming back to normal again. Now, all I have to do is keep praying and hoping that my father-in-law recovers swiftly from his operation so that my wife and my youngest can return home.
So what the heck does my family and blogging have to do with me getting tennis burnout in High School? Well, while I still loved the game, I had no inspiration to continue hitting that fuzzy green ball across the net.
These past few weeks, I realized that I love to blog and I love reading and commenting on blogs, but without my blogging inspirations, my love for blogging is not enough to compel my fingers to start typing. After all, my family pretty much povides me with the majority of my blogging materials.
Without them, the images swirling in my mind will never make it into my canvas.
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Quick Updates!
1. My father-in-law came out of his surgery with flying colors!!!! Yiiiiipieeeeeee!
2. I was able to fix my school’s crazy schedule even though I made some of my teachers unhappy.
3. People are still continue to donate for my school project in the Philippines. The pot is at $305.00
4. We had a death in the family last week. It happens.
5. HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!
