A (very) brief break

I gave up on public blogging for...5 days. :) I wrote this on the placeholder page that was the blog URL:

I made a tough decision last night to shut down all of my blogs. Thanks to anyone who was reading, I really do appreciate it. I love to write but I don’t love all of…(looks around the Indieweb)…this…anymore. Lots of great content mixed with an overly-healthy dose of Progressive politics that has gotten so much worse over the last several weeks. The echo in the echo chamber has become too loud, like piercing feedback from a microphone and speakers in a large room. I am guilty of contributing to it. It’s all become too much (for me anyhow).

To those who say this is “tone policing” or whatever phrase happens to have been adopted this week it is not. I’m calling it as I see it, as I always have. I’m not telling anyone to stop posting whatever they want. I’m just saying I’m leaving because of it. I likely will be back, it’s hard to stay away, but it’s time for a complete break and some peace and quiet.

I had read some stuff that really put me over the edge. Still feel what I said in the quote above and I frequently have this problem when I get exhausted by it all but this time I really thought hey this is it, it's done. I was really angry and that combined with all of the anxiety over the last several weeks and months was just too much. Instead of just getting up and walking away I did the burn-it-all-down routine but once the anger had subsided a bit I thought to myself that it's silly to let this stuff get to me this way. I wrote several days ago about getting back on social media which I did. I can handle this place the same way and continue to enjoy writing. It's not about anyone else but me and I need to remember that. It really is a source of enjoyment and I shouldn't be giving that up.