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dear friends Posted on February 3, 2018 at 02:54:23 PM by Shiva
I just wanted to apologize for being so inactive lately. I put myself on away recently because, honestly, I'm just not in a head space where I can post right now. I touched on this briefly a while ago in another post (the one where I was talking about cutting down characters), and have mentioned it a couple times on Discord, but basically I've been dealing with a lot of personal issues (mostly health and money problems) that have been keeping me under a lot of strain. As a result, every time I've so much as thought about posting the last month or two, it's filled me with dread and anxiety. I've tried to push past it, but it's been getting harder and harder.
It's really not fair on you guys to keep you waiting so long for my posts, and I feel so guilty for being so slow and flaky, but for the sake of my mental health I'm really trying to avoid anything that causes me undue stress. And I'm trying to remind myself that if something stops being fun for me, I shouldn't force myself to keep doing it, because then it just sucks for everyone involved.
This has been going on for long enough that I'm starting to think I may just need a break from TLI. I would stay on as a mod, of course - I could never 100% abandon this place - but I'm thinking it might help me just to quit everyone for a while, give myself some breathing room, and figure out what a more realistic character load looks like for me. I've done this a couple times in the past when I was going through rough periods, and it definitely helped me then - I was able to come back to TLI ready and eager to post, so there's no reason that couldn't happen again. There's something cathartic about a fresh start, you know?
However, I'm not going to quit just yet. I'm going to sit on this a while longer - probably another week or two - during which time I'll stay on away, have a good think, and focus on getting my personal issues under control. It could be that I feel totally different after that, I don't know. At the very least - even if I decide not to quit, I'm almost definitely going to need to cut down on threads (and possibly some more characters). So if any of you would like some OOC resolution to our threads, let me know!
Anyway, basically I just wanted to apologize and to give you guys a head's up on how I'm feeling and what may or may not be happening with my characters. Thank you all for being patient with me in the mean time. I love you guys <3 Replies: