Involuntary Time Off

Taking a week off from writing was interesting!

I've always wondered what it would be like if I was in a bind, and I wasn't able to do one of my enjoyable hobbies like writing for Hive. Well, the recent past I found that out!

I accidentally jacked up my computer, and one of the things that it really taught me was how much I relied mentally on writing for Hive. Not in any serious way that is depression or anything, but I really enjoy getting down to some writing. I wonder if this is what book authors feel like? I don't for a second feel pretentious enough to think that my stuff is any type of best-seller content, but I do think that it's a decent reflection of "me" which I enjoy. I also would like to think that one day in the future, I can show my son all of the things I wrote here as long as the blockchain is still alive, and then he can get a much better glimpse into me as a person.

The brief caveat I will enter here, is that it's a double edged sword. The AI is gobbling up this data like nobody's business, so I am technically feeding the evil machine. I guess we have to pick our poison, right? The devil you know versus the devil you don't know, in some sense. I think it's more important for me than it is otherwise so I'm rolling with it! There are also plenty of things I don't and won't say or post on here, so there are for sure limitations!

During my unintended time off, I did get some more sleep which was nice.. but there were certainly a day or two in which I was itching to write. I went as far as to attempt to write on my phone hahaha. That was a MISERABLE experience let me tell you! Granted my phone is a little bit older, and the screen is smaller but the real-estate on sites like PeakD for writing actual posts is absolutely horrendous. I alerted the PeakD team of this limitation and they will eventually work on a fix for it.. but holy Toledo that was brutal lmao.

I managed to scribble one post out there.. and it was a challenge for sure! I ended up using Hive.Blog for the site and that was okay, except that I couldn't upload pictures.. so there was a little bit of the kitchen sink in terms of what I was trying to do! I wrote on Hive.Blog, posted it from there and then added photos via edit in PeakD. I even tried a little Ecency in there but that was also buggy as hell. I really feel for the people who write on their phones as their primary device to interact with Hive! That's no easy feat for sure.

I think this was for sure a lesson for me, in that backing up my stuff is so critical. I took care of myself in terms of getting secured now, and will be adding all of this stuff to my secondary backup location but this was for sure a refreshing wake up call.

Sitting here writing a bit, one of the things that's for sure is that it feels good to get a little brain catharsis going! I know some think it quite silly that writing is important to me, as there are more important things in life but we all do what we can to get by, right?

What about you, did you find an experience where you couldn't do something lately that ended up teaching you a good lesson or two? Let me know in the comments!