This is NOT a hiatus
We've been having a string of back-to-back public holidays over here in Malaysia, what with Deepavali (a Hindu festival) on Thursday and Hari Raya Aidilfitri (a Muslim celebration) on Sunday and Monday. I've spent the time off-line, hanging out with friends, catching up on sleep, doing some spring-cleaning, visiting the gym -- okay, that only happened once -- and thinking about the future of this blog.
At the present moment I find myself not wanting to write here anymore. It's not like I don't have anything more to say, coz I can think of lots of stuff to talk about. Inane things, day-to-day stories, irrelevant observations, and so on. But I just don't want to do that, it feels meaningless and without purpose.
My life feels stagnant: my relationship with God, my career direction, my finances, my love-life -- all are either stagnant or in a mess, and I'm not sure which is the better state for them to be in. On the other hand, there are other things going on in my life right now which I can't talk too much about here, either due to confidentiality issues (ie. involves my work, involves other people, etc.) or privacy issues (I'm just not comfortable sharing it with the WWW -- the Whole Wide World -- especially since more and more people I know in "real life" are now reading my blog).
But it's more than just the writing. I've found myself reading fewer and fewer blogs, more and more infrequently too. I'm losing interest in the whole blogging thing, and I'm not sure whether it's symptomatic of the malaise I'm going through at the moment, a side effect of the other stuff I'm struggling with, or just an indication that the blogging bug has run its course with me and it's time for me to move on. Perhaps a break will help me to figure that out.
I won't say I'm taking a hiatus coz the moment I say that word I'm almost guaranteed to feel a desperate itch to blog and you'll probably see me back here within a week, posting away madly ;) I'll just say that blogging is going to be pretty sporadic till further notice. Thanks for all the comments I've received from you, my dear readers, over the past 2ｽ years. Getting feedback and seeing discussions develop under my posts is one of the top things I love about blogging. Cheers, as Bob likes to say.