To some of you, this behaviour might come off as contradictive and negative from my part, because I´ve been a strongly vocal Steemian when it comes to posting daily, having a committment with our blog and audience, keep engaging when the steem price is low and interacting and encouraging interaction accross the steem blockchain, especially during a dry streak.
Recently, there´s been a lot going on regarding our blockchain, a lot of projects are being born, initiatives like the State of Steem and the Steem alliance gathered a lot of people in the same place, having discussions and striving to work together, something new to out community; small communities are getting bigger and big communities are launching their Dapp, Frontend or interaction website.
I´ve been part of this blockchain for a little more than one year and a half and, to be able to see it evolve they it´s been is amazing and makes me proud about us.
Don´t get me wrong, I´ve been reading a lot and browsed Steem almost daily for half an hour, maybe an hour every night. I just stopped checking discord messages - sorry if I didn´t reply to you or took a long time to do it - and posting/interacting in the various Steem Frontends; not because I didn´t want to, but because I needed to stop and get out of the woods to be able to see the full picture and to assess my next move, both Steem Blockchain related and Personal life related.
Of course @steemonboarding is still being developed and baked, this project has nothing to do with this situation assesment I´m telling you about, I´m talking about individual stuff here.
In one of my oldest community focused posts, I write about how reinventing ourselves and keep evolving is key for keeping our audience interested and interacting with us. So, what happens when this reinventing and creative inspiration is there, but we don´t really know how to translate it to words (or posts)?
I decided to stop posting. To keep reading but not interacting; to evaluate what I want to do next.
I started by travel/adventure-blogging because well duh, I was traveling; then I evolved into community advice kind of posting because I realized a lot of people started to follow me and look up to me; then I got a delegation from @blocktrades, so I started to focus in rewarding the community and encourage interaction and involvement from and with the people from Steem; now, I´m not traveling, there are so many people posting about tips/advice and I no longer have my delegation - temporarily, hopefully - so the logical step, at least for me, is to determine what I want to focus my blog about.
So here I am, in the common room of a jungle-like hostel, as the last 25 days, trying to figure out my next step in life and thus, my next focus point of my Steem blog.
I have some ideas, and I think I have the proper inspiration to make it happen. If everything goes according plan - it rarely does - I´ll start posting about it tomorrow. Or perhaps tonight, who knows.
I want to thank everyone who messaged me to check up on me and see if I was still alive, I´ll reply to all your messages in the next few hours, it´s nice to see some Steemians caring enough to write a check up message when they see you are not posting as much as you used to.