I have "successfully" maintained my streak of vanishing from the platform for 2 months or more at a stretch every year! Yay 😑
This time around, I was already working on a post. I hit a block, and never ended up finishing it. And that was it, just like that I wasn't writing anymore. Well, what actually happened was, right around that time I started swing trading HIVE with 3-4 times more the capital I usually trade with. While the returns are great while trading with such high capital, the risks are equally humongous! I have had to exhaust most of my energy focusing (and of course fretting and sweating and worrying and everything else that comes with making a huge untimely sale) on the trades and watching the HIVE charts.
I have made exciting profits during that stint, I could have written 5-6 posts alone on some of the trades, some of the tricky situations I got myself into and how I got out of those, but I was just too obsessed watching the charts. So obsessed that, I did what I said I would never do - power down from my HP. After a few tricky trades where I got myself in a bit of a trouble, I realized when you trade with a huge capital (amount of HIVE) you should always have a decent amount of liquid HIVE as collateral to prevent incurring potentially severe damage!
Or, I was just lazy.
Or, I just didn't want to sound like a broken record on my blog - writing similar topics over and over again.
I felt my blog was hitting a very stagnant flavor. All I ever wrote about was either a trade or coffee or food. And I only enjoyed writing about the coffee. I felt I was churning out posts just for the sake of it and that is not a trait I want myself or my blog to be associated. I would even go as far as saying it was borderline farming, even though I ensured putting an effort in long form posts. It just wasn't feeling fun, the euphoria of writing a post was not there.
So I needed to take a step away, do other things and come back to writing ONLY when the day comes when the words want to flow naturally, when the euphoria of getting a post published returns. Today is that day.
I don't know why, I don't know how - but I woke up today and I knew before I got out of bed I was going to write a post today. Even till last night writing on HIVE was not even remotely on my mind. My blog was as far away as it could be you see, I had a pretty packed schedule yesterday. It was the second day of post admission in my ward. And by the time I was home it was nearly time for Bangladesh's must win match in the Asia Cup (which we won, Good Yay this time!). The evening would kick off with A premier league match between Liverpool and Aston Villa (again, a game we won comfortably) and to cap it all off, Barcelona was travelling to Osasuna for the away La liga match (which was not an easy win in any way - but a win nonetheless)!
Hmm, maybe the euphoria of all the wins poured over into the euphoria of writing? Maybe.
But the euphoria is back, and that is all that matters.
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