Metro Chronicles V

Why did I stop writing? One look at the website this is on shows something obvious: I do not write as much anymore. Even when I was not doing the 100 Days to Offload challenge, I would still write on this page somewhat frequently. Why did I stop doing that? The answer is probably simple, yet also the most boring one: I am busy now. I have a pretty demanding job, and it is writing intensive too. Whatever desire I have to write is very much satiated by my day job. One might argue that it is oversatiated now. I write pages upon pages of legal writings after doing copious amounts of research that thoroughly exhaust me by the end of the workday. My commute, which is about an hour each way, is another time sink. My weekends largely comprise doing something the little time I have “free” or doing the tasks I did not do after getting back from work. Being here for six months, I have a schedule of doing things, even set to reminders on my calendar so I make sure to do X at Y time. I rarely do…