When Life Gets in the Way

When I left my blog over two years ago, I never imagined it would be for such a prolonged length of time. I figured I’d just take a quick break and focus on what in my real life needed attending to.

After a few months, I kept telling myself and others, that I’d be back to blogging here by the end of the month, which turned into the end of the year and then into the spring, fall, etc.

All those months of proclaiming (and often believing) those intentions fizzled as the days flew past. Before I knew it, another season, another year had passed.

And all the while I knew I would return someday when the time was right for me. I thought it was late last year, so I hired someone to finally transfer my dated looking blog to my very own domain which I had been redirecting.  Even that didn’t spark my creativity to start writing again.

Then a few things happened a couple of months ago. The first was that I let myself off the hook for believing my blog had to be perfect before I started writing again. You might say I am a bit of an over thinker and a somewhat recovering perfectionist. Both would be true.

I was stunted and overwhelmed by the work I needed to get my new blog picture perfect. One day, I realized it was a lot like what I tell my web design clients and the reason I thrive online: the beauty of a blog is that it is fluid and changeable.

Kind of like what I write about: creativity.

Amazingly, after I came to terms with what was holding me back, opportunities to resurrect this blog came my way. Someone reached out to me about writing some guest posts on creativity and she even offered to write some posts in the future here. Someone else published a book I knew my readers would love and that I instantly knew I wanted to feature in this space. And just like that I am here writing this post all inspired and hopeful to reconnect with previous readers and attract new audiences.

It’s amusing how life works sometimes. Again, it’s kind of unpredictable like creativity.

Creativity Poem by Adam Harvey