Hiatus
To my friends who read the blog,
Firstly, thank you. I have received numerous compliments from all of you regarding the content on this blog, and I have found myself deeply encouraged by your kindness and appreciation. 2016 has seen so far more than fifty individual posts. In the preceding year, I only posted ten times, and the year before that had only eight updates from me. Some of these posts are quick, little snippets – such as quotes that I found particularly clever or appealing – some of these posts are lengthy dissections of an abstract concept, and some of these posts are comprehensive introspections on aspects of my own life.
The empty text box is such a gorgeous sight to me. In many ways, I am my first reader. It's exciting to experience the whole process, starting with an initial idea – I call it a "seed" – and seeing it essentially write itself. I'm just the lowly photographer, watching it all happen from behind a camera. The ideas in each post intertwine like streams combining into a river. They might start at different sources, but they will all coalesce and flow naturally downstream towards a common end. There are dry seasons when the streams thin and the currents slow, and there are rainy seasons where the water comes pouring in so fast that it's difficult to bring order to the chaos. But in almost every case, I have found myself at a radically different place at the end of each river than I envisioned at the start. I firmly believe that I have become a better writer and that I now have a better understanding of myself as a person thanks to my experiences writing on This World and Me, and all of your support and encouragement has enabled me to keep doing it. Thank you. Thank you endlessly.
It is therefore with regret that I have to announce that I'm putting this blog on a temporary hiatus. I am a senior in high school who is taking courses at a university through my state's dual enrollment program and who is currently applying for admission into colleges. My free time is dwindling, and there is simply no way to keep this up. Those of you who may be closely following the blog, you may have already noticed my super-long posts getting fewer and far between. I made one such post in July on Einstein's theory of special relativity, I published a little thing on the unexpected hanging paradox in early September, and I published another a few weeks later on bad words. Beyond that, there hasn't been much. College applications and schoolwork are – without a single doubt – the number one priorities. This blog is way low on that list of priorities.
I don't see my activity level on this blog rising until perhaps around New Years'. But not to worry. I've got a list of "seeds" on my computer, and there are at least five of them right now whose streams are brimming with energy, simply blocked by the dam that is college applications. I can't wait to share them with you.
I typically see most of you in real life anyway beyond this blog, so this isn't me isolating myself from the world. I will see you the next time I see you, whenever that may be.
Until then, thank you and good night.
MZ
Firstly, thank you. I have received numerous compliments from all of you regarding the content on this blog, and I have found myself deeply encouraged by your kindness and appreciation. 2016 has seen so far more than fifty individual posts. In the preceding year, I only posted ten times, and the year before that had only eight updates from me. Some of these posts are quick, little snippets – such as quotes that I found particularly clever or appealing – some of these posts are lengthy dissections of an abstract concept, and some of these posts are comprehensive introspections on aspects of my own life.
The empty text box is such a gorgeous sight to me. In many ways, I am my first reader. It's exciting to experience the whole process, starting with an initial idea – I call it a "seed" – and seeing it essentially write itself. I'm just the lowly photographer, watching it all happen from behind a camera. The ideas in each post intertwine like streams combining into a river. They might start at different sources, but they will all coalesce and flow naturally downstream towards a common end. There are dry seasons when the streams thin and the currents slow, and there are rainy seasons where the water comes pouring in so fast that it's difficult to bring order to the chaos. But in almost every case, I have found myself at a radically different place at the end of each river than I envisioned at the start. I firmly believe that I have become a better writer and that I now have a better understanding of myself as a person thanks to my experiences writing on This World and Me, and all of your support and encouragement has enabled me to keep doing it. Thank you. Thank you endlessly.
It is therefore with regret that I have to announce that I'm putting this blog on a temporary hiatus. I am a senior in high school who is taking courses at a university through my state's dual enrollment program and who is currently applying for admission into colleges. My free time is dwindling, and there is simply no way to keep this up. Those of you who may be closely following the blog, you may have already noticed my super-long posts getting fewer and far between. I made one such post in July on Einstein's theory of special relativity, I published a little thing on the unexpected hanging paradox in early September, and I published another a few weeks later on bad words. Beyond that, there hasn't been much. College applications and schoolwork are – without a single doubt – the number one priorities. This blog is way low on that list of priorities.
I don't see my activity level on this blog rising until perhaps around New Years'. But not to worry. I've got a list of "seeds" on my computer, and there are at least five of them right now whose streams are brimming with energy, simply blocked by the dam that is college applications. I can't wait to share them with you.
I typically see most of you in real life anyway beyond this blog, so this isn't me isolating myself from the world. I will see you the next time I see you, whenever that may be.
Until then, thank you and good night.
MZ