Saying goodbye…

I don’t consider myself an optimistic person. My brain simply does not allow me to look on the bright side of things. If you ask me on a good day, I’d say I’m a realist, but in reality I’m more of a pessimist.

Now that we’re almost in the 5th month of the year and my 28th birthday is looming, I’m looking back at the goals I set for myself this year. I might have been too optimistic. My realist and pessimist self was nowhere to be seen that day. Did I shoot myself in the foot by setting such lofty goals, or am I just the laziest person alive who cannot reach her goals?

What brought about this whole existential crisis was an email from Hostgator. I reached the storage limits on my blog plan, and they were upgrading me to a new (more expensive) tier. This was a blow for me, since it meant my blog has become unaffordable.

I’ve had this blog since 2018, and it’s amassed over a million views. I enjoyed blogging immensely. It sharpened my writing skills and my web dev skills. I don’t want to let it go, but at the same time I really cannot afford it. I know that ads are an option, but honestly, I haven’t actually written a blog post in so long it just didn’t seem worth it.

An existential crisis…

My existential crisis also revolves around my content goals for the year. I wanted to write more long-form content, I wanted to post 5 times a week on Instagram, and I wanted to create good content.

Then my day job became insanely busy, and couple that with my ongoing health struggles, I just haven’t written in months (blog and actual writing projects, but that’s another story).

Which is a long-winded way of telling you that I’ve decided it’s okay to change my content goals for the year and it’s okay that I couldn’t reach them. Life happens. I need my content to better fit my lifestyle and my headspace, and at the moment I really just don’t want to worry about my blog costing money.

I’m not holding myself to the standards of the person I was four months ago. She’s long gone and was obviously a bit delulu.

I still have some content things in the works, I’m just adapting them a bit. And that’s okay.

So, here’s the plan: simplify.

I’m officially retiring my blog six years after it started. It’s being replaced by substack, and I hope you’ll join me there for more rambles on books, life, and more.

I want to thank everyone who was a reader of YourWordsMyInk, you truly made my dreams come true. I sincerely hope you’ll join me in this new adventure.

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