#shut down

I think it’s time to shut down.

1993diaries has been running for years now. Transitions were seen from one url to another, one theme to another and one genre to another. As a blogger, I could say it made quite some improvements. 1993diaries was the key for the blogger to cultivate her inner talents and explore more of her craft. It was her outlet of emotions when things got rough and the best part was when she met online friends. It was her gateway to expose herself to the world. 

Most bloggers have already been changing platforms, customizing layouts and leaving their Tumblrs as a reblog blog and posting and continuing their writings on wordpress, blogspot and the like. I want to do those things too. But I’ve contemplated so much that I reached the point where I have laid out reasons why I could (and probably would) choose the option to discontinue blogging:

• Beautiful shots contribute to almost 80% of your blogworthiness. I don’t have any HD camera and won’t be owning one at the most possible time. 
• Running out of relevant & relatable topics to blog about. It’s not enough that I’m a personal blog. That I post about my dinner dates with friends and what I did this Sunday. It’s also important that my readers could relate to particularly what I’m talking about and that it could somehow give some impact in their lives.
• Not a fashion blogger, nor a book blogger nor a travel blogger. So what am I? I can’t really find any category where I could classify my blog. And if I stick to one, I’m worried I won’t be able to sustain it.
• Time isn’t really on a spree here. I have a dayjob that requires me to be at work from 8:30 in the morning and be home at around 8:00 in the evening (overtime paid, yes), the time I spend at home is just enough for me to eat, and get ready for sleep.

Tell me, how will I able to overcome those? I’m always comparing my blog to other bloggers on how they maintain their blog or how constant their posts are updated or how they could keep up with the latest fashion trend or how they could travel to different countries in just a month or how they could have that book haul and fill their shelves in just a week. I actually don’t know. If I transfer to other platforms, the same dilemma will still strike me hard. And so I keep asking myself, is it blogworthy — the posts I’m posting here? Is it? Or maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s best to just shut down.

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