Do you care where I’ve been? No? Good.

It’s been 24 days since I’ve written anything on this blog, but I don’t feel one bit of regret. I have no excuse, really, the topics have been there running through my mind. I’ve just been too busy living to take the time to write about it all.

Last week, though, the guilt that kept coming to my thoughts sounded like this, “Oh no! I’m not being consistent with my blog. It’s gonna be like starting all over again if I ever get back into it. I’m a failure….” But after sitting down that night and typing out the words to a lovely justification as to where I’ve been, several things dawned on me.

1. I don’t have that many readers. And the ones that I have, for the most part, have been in pretty good contact with me through email, twitter or even face-to-face. Granted, there are a few people whom I haven’t spoken to during that time, but I’m betting they worry more about their own lives than my blog. ‘”Oh man.. Tim hasn’t written anything. He’s a bum!”

Yea… not so much.

Even if I did have a lot of readers, though. That gives me even more reason not to put this stuff up, cause it means they’re probably here for quality articles, not a dozen posts in a row saying “Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Here’s what I’ve been doing.” Cause that happens on a lot of blogs, and I don’t want it to happen here.

2. I don’t have time to write that type of post. Besides, what is a post like that really saying? That I’m too busy to follow through on a commitment that I made to this blog. If I make a commitment, I need to try to keep it. So what’s my solution (no, it’s not “write more often”). Break the commitment and start over. Sometimes I feel like I need to write a lot because the big boys all do. But I’m not one of the big boys, don’t even want to be. So why should I force myself to write like them and then punish myself when I mess up?

I shouldn’t. I should just write when I can, make it good quality work and then move on with life. If you forget to post something for a month, ok! Just get it in when you can. If people don’t understand that you have a life that you’re living, that’s their problem, not yours. Besides, some of my favorite blogs only get updated infrequently, so they don’t all need to be rush-posted.

3. Who cares? One of the biggest problems that I’m having with this blog is its focus on me. Too much of it is about what I do with my life. This provides virtually no value to anyone, and also keeps me from learning about you. Those types of post say nothing important, so it’s just a waste of time for everybody.

Where have I been? Well, I’ve been working. And I’ll keep on doing that for the unforeseeable future. If I don’t make it on here to say that personally, just assume that it’s true.

If you really want to keep up with my everyday life, check out my new blog that I made, Into The Charybdis. It will be less involved than this site, and a lot more personal (informal).

So there you have it. The last blog I’ll ever write about not having written in a while. Hopefully, from here on out, there will be a lot more quality stuff flowing your way.