Unintended Consequences

So, how have you been?  I hope well and wonderful!!

It's been a while since I've written and checked in with you......
and the reason why is a bit complicated and at the same time unintended.

As you may remember from my post about my 2017 Resolutions, which was just about my last post!!,  I resolved to spend less time on social media and screen time and I have but in doing so I stayed away from here as well.

I have taken a long look at why I am on social media and my blog.  It took just a second to figure out how I wanted to proceed on Facebook and Instagram, but this took me a while to figure out.

For the first 6 months or so, I didn't even think about writing, I was journaling and doing some writing that needed to be private.  However, around August, I started to think, "I should do a blog entry" but it never went past that.  In October, I thought "Write Melissa" but then that little obnoxious voice said "It's been 10 months since you wrote, it's been too long"......and I listened to the second voice.

As you can tell, the voice that said "Write Melissa!" got more insistent and louder, so here I am, but it took me figuring out why before I could get this going again.  Writing for a audience is different for me than my private journaling and I enjoy doing it, regardless of whether anyone reads this or not.  It's the process, the creativity, and the joy of it, not the responses (although I do appreciate them tremendously!!!).  So with this cleared up in my mind, I was able to write again.

I have no idea how often I will write here, but I know that I will write.

So until next time,
Melissa

The Reason Why....

Have you ever taken a look at your life and wondered about the reason why you do the things that you do?

I have been, lately, and it might be resulting  in some changes......
In regards to blogging, I'm not sure how much longer I will be continuing.  When I was doing my 30 Day Challenge, it was a way to tell people about Bikram yoga and the process of it.  Now that I am done, I am struggling with finding my blogging voice again.  I've been tossing back and forth in my mind the dilemma of sharing too much or just blogging to have my voice out there, and is that really a reason to continue.  I do know this, until I figure it out, I will not close my blog account, but you may not see me as much.  You may be wondering brought this on, and it wasn't one thing, but a couple.  I read an article about blogging in a magazine, and the ironic part, I can't remember which one, but the premise of the article was that blogging was the new bragging.  It hit me, because bragging in real life bugs me and is my blog bragging?  I've never had the urge to be a writer and in the past, if there was something I wanted to write about, I would get out my journal and write and the world would be none the wiser.

Can you tell I'm conflicted about this? 
Do you blog?  Why do you blog?  What do you think?  I'm looking for advice.....
Confused in cyberspace....

Melissa