Hiatus and Creating Meaning
Let your mind wander from time to time, and explore possibilities!
As life grew more busy for me around the second week of January, I decided to take a hiatus from publishing once a day. Between burnout and increasing business in one of my day jobs, it was time to focus on one, and decrease creative output to short poems and hobby writing for leisure. Something surprising happened however.
I don’t regret this approach.
Writing as a hobby during my hiatus was just as fulfilling as when I felt that I MUST be writing something, otherwise I could not call myself a writer.
That’s an unhealthy mindset, and I bet many of us share it, especially for those of us who want to make writing a stream of income.
Now granted, I realized I had a sort of blessing and realization as well. I found personal value and fulfillment in my day job in insurance.
When I first started out, I had no real interest in the job. I drifted about and got no where fast. Soon I found myself stuck in retail full time, making no progress in life and with the no time to write because I was always tired from said retail position.
I broke down.
I returned to my insurance sales position as I was licensed, and started to take it more seriously, and at first I had…
