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Exhale

So here’s the moment when the main topics have run out and I don’t know what to write about right now.

Looking for ideas, I went through the list of things I’ve already written about, searching for what could be expanded or told differently. The Default Apps 2025 post was a year ago, but the only significant change since then was switching to Obsidian, and I’ve already written about that. There are posts I want to translate from Russian, but I won’t change their dates or count them as new.

I had an idea to write about how sometimes you need space and air for new ideas to come — and this very post is that space. Overall, a good and fair idea, but it can also serve as an ending — I’ve seen many blogs that stopped updating with exactly this kind of post as their last one. Need a break for a month or two, and never posting again. But those blogs still exist, frozen, and I can only imagine that could be guilt or shame for some people.

To be honest, I’ve really accumulated some fatigue — partly because of the anxiety of recent days. And I need to exhale. But exhaling isn’t just about absence, it’s also about easing up. About writing without a clear goal or plan. Just freewriting.

Usually my freewriting goes into a private journal, because during that type of writing all sorts of topics can come up, and many of them I don’t want to make public. Here, of course, it’s a bit different — I’m still filtering what I write.

But then again, freewriting full of insights happens when you have the energy. Something can annoy the hell out of you, but the energy for anger and reflection is still there. Right now I need to relax and trust the flow of life. There are clear markers and plans for what needs to be done soon, everything else can wait.

And yes, I will find new topics to write about.

P.S. Irony of life – this post is marked as the 100th in this blog (combining Ru/En posts). This post could be some kind of reflection for the blog, but instead it’s this, and maybe that’s blogging in a nutshell.