I've been active on Hive for a lot of years now. A couple of days ago I received a reply from Hivebuzz celebrating me with my 6th Hive birthday. Boy, time really does fly when you're having fun.
Immediately after I discovered Hive I was very enthusiastic about it. I could just create blogs and even get paid for it. It was much later that I really discovered the value of Hive; the community.
In the past six years I've been quite active on Hive. I've shared a lot of my experiences, played a lot of games, started some initiatives for the improvements of Hive, joined dozens of discord channels and listened to Hive Podcasts.
I've also started multiple initiatives to improve Hive. The one most of you might know is 
But I also own the Cycling community and was active in Hive Health Dashboard initiatives.
A few weeks ago I announced a that I was going to have a holiday break. We had a wonderful and adventurous family holiday planned. I wanted to have my full focus on the holiday and my family, so I removed all Hive apps and Discord from my phone.
This cold turkey approach was a bit strange at first, but really gave me a lot of rest and made me enjoy the family holiday.
After getting back home I had expected to get back into my old rhythm. I checked Hive to see what I 'missed', but I found out that I personally didn't miss a lot. I also didn't really feel the urge to create blogs myself again. It actually feels good not to be very active and check Hive a couple of times a day.
So I decided that I want to keep Hive on a lower priority for a little longer. The break has shown me that I really enjoy having more time and space away from Hive.
This is surely not a goodbye. I will still check up on Hive regularly, but I don't think I will be active on a daily basis anymore. At least, for a while. Who knows what will happen in the future....
[TLDR]
I just wanted to let everyone know I'm taking a step back from Hive.
I'm not quitting, I'll just be less active to focus more on my offline activities.
Take care!
