Offline Life and Bogging: A Talk About Why I Took So Much Time Off Blogging

I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but I haven’t been doing a good job keeping up with publishing posts on my blogs. There are reasons for this, but right now it is due to things going on in my life. I could write blog posts about them, but I don’t like sharing too much about whatever is going on in my life at that time. Some of the things I do talk about on this blog are still things that distract me and force me to focus on them instead of thinking up blog post ideas and writing them.

At this time the major distraction is my massive cleaning and reorganizing of my things. In addition to my things, I need to clean out and organize things I inherited from relatives. I can handle my things just fine. It’s my relative’s things that is the problem.

As I type this, I am in the process of focusing my efforts on decluttering the DVD and VHS collection I have. Yes, you read that right. I still own VHS tapes. I have DVDs of the movies and TV shows I also own on VHS, but I never had the chance to get rid of the VHS versions.

In order to reduce the overwhelming workload I have before me, I decided to focus on things I can handle. VHS tapes and DVDs are two of those things I can handle decluttering. This has helped me focus on seeing a task through, but it also gave me the opportunity to clean out something I know I won’t like or need anymore. Thus why I’m really enjoying doing this.

Getting rid of the things I no longer need has brought me great joy and happiness. It gives me a relief to get rid of all the movies and TV shows I hate. I no longer have to look at them and feel frustrated by their presence in my collection. Now, I can find the movies I actually do love to watch in their place.

The only problem is I want to do this more than write blog posts.

I seriously considered writing posts documenting my decluttering process, but I have such a sentimental attachment to some of the VHS tapes and I own so many of them that I decided to do it away from social media. I am also worried about judgmental people commenting about what they thing I should or shouldn’t do about decluttering and how much I should or shouldn’t keep in my collection.

The thing is just because talking about a certain subject is trendy on social media doesn’t mean you should talk about it too. Just because it feels like everyone is posting online about it doesn’t mean you should post about it too. If you follow whatever everyone does online doesn’t mean it will help you feel better. In my case, the things I own are a combination of my relative’s things and my own things. Going through both has been physically draining because of the sheer volume of everything I need to clean out. Also, since I have emotional attachments to things, and some of these things are my relative’s, I need to do it away from the eye of social media.

I hate posting things just to gain followers. I enjoy owning all the things in my home, even if it seems illogical to others. I value them highly and I want to let them go whenever I’m ready. Right now, I’m more ready to let certain things go more than others. If means I want to do it in private, then I need to do it in private. In this case, cleaning out my relative’s things is a way for me to mourn for my relative and put a close to any grief over their passing I haven’t addressed yet. I thought I did address all the grief I had over their passing, but after cleaning their things out over the past few months has brought up old feelings of frustration, anger, and sometimes rage about them. There are so many thing I realized about my relative that I didn’t see before until I cleaned out their things. Doing this offline, and talking to my inner circle offline, is the best thing for me.

Now I need to figure out what to blog about that has nothing to do with cleaning, organizing, or decluttering!

 

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

 

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