A Wake-Up Call (Article) I Needed

Writing has been my passion ever since. I know I'm not that good, but I write because it's like my safe haven. It's how I can move forward when everything around me is trying to pull me off.

When I was invited to join here, I got thrilled coz finally, after the photo-blogging site I used to love was shut down, there's another platform that lets me write and possibly, gets me more readers. I know could simply blog on WordPress but getting the audiences in platforms like that is quite hard so I prefer sites like this.

At first, I came here to just write random stuff, sharing about my frustration at work to having a crush on someone who happened to ditch me eventually to sharing cuteness that I so love about my furbabies to going back to my drama queen self again.

These were my typical routines before until I start HODLing my BCH. That's the time when things have changed quite a bit. From being a frustrated writer who only writes anything and everything under the sun, I become obsessed with writing about goals.

I love saving money at a young age not because I want to become rich but it's more about the pride I get. It feels great to be able to save, even though I don't earn that much. It's a challenge that I really do ever since. It makes me happy to see my little piggy bank being half-full with the few extra coins I saved every day.

And I must say that I brought that practice here with me. I got obsessed with saving and reaching my goals on time that I forgot my purpose here. I become obsessed with writing every day just to prove to myself that I can really achieve something because of hard work and perseverance. I become obsessed that I forgot to write about other things in life.

Then I got to read @Eybyoung 's article, and I thank God I got to read it. Because what she wrote in her article made me realized that if you just write because of goals and not for the love of writing, you'll get burned out eventually, which is very true.

After reading her article, aka wake-up call article, I went straight to my profile, checked all the articles I recently wrote, and boom! All I see is a list of articles about goals and the monthly achievements and just fewer non-BCH-related topics. I have failed myself. I let my dreams for the future overruled my passion for sharing random stuff.

As you all know, I wrote an article recently about me starting to lose my will to write. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do, and you'll see how obsessed I have been with achieving goals that I had to force my brain to work for the sake of getting more.

Thank you, @Eybyoung, for your well-written article. I must say, you really nailed it. You've just made me realized the cause and effects of my actions, and I thank you for that. You are also right about the reading stuff, which, hopefully, I can improve very soon.

Closing thoughts

From now on, I will write less about goals as my only goal this year is to just reach 5BCH. I already stopped checking the monthly goals because I got so busy with noise.cash. So moving forward, I'll just write something random and no more stressing myself.

Writing should be fun, and it will only be fun if you put more of your heart on it than of your brain.