Hello everyone! How’re you all doing today? I know it’s been quite a while since you’ve heard from me. For that, I extend my sincerest apologies for my long silence. I can tell you from the bottom of my heart I didn’t intentionally stop writing on my blog. There wasn’t anything going on here in the blogging community that made me not want to write anymore. I just—needed to be away for a little while.
As you all know, I mentioned back in February that I lost my best friend to a disease that has yet to have a cure. While I’d love nothing more to say I’ve gotten over that loss and have fully moved on with my life, that would be a lie. The grief I feel over her death comes and goes with some days being easier than others. She was someone who was really a big part of my life so having to live without her hasn’t been easy. But I’m managing the best I can, one day at a time. One of the things I’ve started working on to help deal with my grief is writing personal letters to my best friend, talking about the different things going on in my life. I’ve found that it helps even though there are a lot of times I don’t really know what to say.
However, that isn’t the only reason I’ve been absent from my blog. This year in general has just been very busy as well. I have an older sister who just recently got married so I’ve been helping prepare for that.
And to be honest, I just haven’t been writing or reading quite as much lately. I guess you could say for the past couple months I’ve been in a reading and writing slump that I’m slowly working on getting myself out of. I have a lot of books to read, just need to pick one up and start reading again. But it’s been difficult to get out of because I just haven’t been feeling like reading lately and I don’t know why. So, I’m going to try and figure out what’s causing this slump for me and what I can do to remedy the situation so I can read the books piling up in my room that remain unread.
With that being said, I’m hoping this blog post can be the start of me getting back to being involved with my blog again. I can’t tell you how much I enjoy writing on my blog and have missed being a part of this community. Hopefully writing this post will motivate me to get back into blogging again like I was doing before I took this unexpected absence.
Again, I apologize from the bottom of my heart for being absent for so long. I can’t guarantee I’ll immediately be active on my blog again, but I’m definitely working right now on getting out of this slump so I can get back into it. And I truly believe this post will be the start of that for me.
I hope you all are doing well and can’t wait to continue blogging where I left off! Please let me know in the comments below what all you’ve been up to since my unexpected hiatus because I’d love nothing more than to hear from fellow bloggers.
December 1, 2019 at 3:01 am
Aww, honey, apology totally accepted! Slumps are totally okay, too, they’re totally normal. Sadness, too… so, hang tough. And welcome back, I guess! 😀
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December 1, 2019 at 10:06 am
Thank you very much! I’m hoping that whatever slump I’ve been in will dissipate soon because I’m definitely ready to get back into writing on my blog again. I’ve missed it so much.
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December 1, 2019 at 5:42 am
I am very sorry to hear about all the hardships in your life currently. It’s okay to take some time off for yourself.
I know that things will get better for you. Keep your head up ☘️
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December 1, 2019 at 10:06 am
Thank you very much!
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December 1, 2019 at 5:43 am
Glad to see you writing again!
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December 12, 2019 at 12:22 pm
so sorry to hear about your friend. We never totally heal from losses like that BUT the pains get easier over time. I haven’t blogged that much this year either. No need to apologize! I’m happy to see your posts whenever you can write them 🙂
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December 15, 2019 at 9:19 pm
So true. When you loose someone you really care about you don’t really get over it. You just learn how to deal with it each day.
I’m definitely going to have to read your blog again because I haven’t been reading blog posts that much either.
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March 27, 2020 at 6:56 pm
I am going through the same thing! Lost my passion but now I’m back
We are Back and better than ever!
I’m excited to follow along on your reborn again blog I’d hope you’d do the same for me!
❤ Brittany https://barelyabog.wordpress.com
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