Well, here we are at the end of another year, and as usual I feel overwhelmed with all the loose ends I see around me:\u00a0 friendships neglected, projects unfinished (or not even begun), ambitions unrealized… the general sense that another twelve months have gotten away from me and I have nothing to blame for it but my own inability to get my shit together. This time of the year tends to make me feel very disappointed in myself.<\/p>\n
I’m particularly disappointed with my blogging at the moment. After that long, long period when Simple Tricks was offline, followed by the painstaking process of reconstructing as many vaporized entries as I could salvage from archive.org, I really hoped I could just pick up again where I left off. Or even better, pick up from where I was a few years earlier, when the quality and quantity of my output was a lot more consistent. It hasn’t happened though, and I’ll be honest, it’s become a real struggle for me to produce much of anything<\/em> for this space. I guess I was sidelined for too long. I got out of the habit, I lost too much momentum… however you want to describe it, I just can’t seem to get in the proper mindset. I’ve got at least a dozen half-written entries that are now weeks past their relevancy because I just can’t kick myself in the butt to actually finish them.<\/p>\n And there’s another problem, too, which I’ve mentioned before but bears repeating: Blogging in general seems to have become passe. Nobody seems to want to read anything longer than 140 characters these days, and even though I know I still have at least a few<\/em> readers, our conversations mostly take place on social media platforms, not here. It’s hard to motivate myself when nothing I do here appears to attract any attention. I find myself thinking, more and more, that there’s an air of futility about this whole damn thing.<\/p>\n None of which is intended to be an announcement. I’m not walking away from Simple Tricks, even though there are times when I seriously think maybe I ought to. I am merely venting my frustrations, as another New Year’s Eve looms up in front of me and I begin to reflect, yet again, on all the miles I’ve run in the hamster wheel without actually going anywhere…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, here we are at the end of another year, and as usual I feel overwhelmed with all the loose ends I see around me:\u00a0 friendships neglected, projects unfinished (or not even begun), ambitions unrealized… the general sense that another twelve months have gotten away from me and I have nothing to blame for it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}