Hourglass image from Pixabay and Man in fear image from Pixabay. while the rest is created myself on Canva photo editor
Always working and busy
I feel like all myself or others do is to work and try making that money, to enable having needs met and the extra income for growth and future support and ensuring your family is looked after like in my case.
So naturally with my big 40th birthday in a couple more years while also having a 3 year old daughter and a son to be born mid September, I have to re-evaluate my situation and free up some time to enjoy life, and time with family more without the stress of money constantly on my mind.
All I do is I work full time, help with house work and my daughter, then go and get more content for my posts on Hive and get to writing them. I love writing these posts, though!
But this also leads to health issues and mental health issues rising higher than ever as I continue to get older. Because I only feel like I am constantly working without really getting a break and doing more with my life, as much as I just want to be doing 3 gaming series for you all to enjoy with me.
Health and mental health issues
My health has been in a bit of a decline. More so I am constantly drained and wanting to fall asleep from fatigue, it feels like the stress is raising my blood pressure once again and I have no effort or time to make proper meals and eat better or look after my body along with properly looking after my family.
My mental health has always suffered and for a long time now, gradually getting worse over time.. the stress isn't all I suffer a lot with but constant anxiety and depression, feeling like I constantly fail and get nowhere even if I know what I need to do and fall back down again. Like I am worthless and wasting my life away and will only drive family away from me as well, or not get to really do anything with them and see us enjoying life.
Break from Hive posts
With the end of my Hell Pie let's play series coming in around 3 or 4 weeks by the looks of it, due to where I am at in the game.. once that ends so to will my Hive blogging for maybe 1 - 2 months, with the potential of coming back after 1 and a half months to start blogging again and there is a good reason for this which ties into my mental health in a big way.
What I plan on doing in my time away from Hive
Man OK thumbs up image from Pixabay
Due to getting older and seeing how much everything has changed and less time remaining in my life (because who knows how long any of us really have) and missing the old days as a kid without the constant issues or worries, I plan to relive some of that through the retro games including my retro consoles and this means, I will get to play then without needing to stress about getting my posts out on Hive!
When the baby is born I will be watching our daughter more full time while my partner recovers, including having around 4 weeks off from work so I also do not have that stress but can still get paid.
My daughter has 2 days a week at childcare and may get a third day at times, meaning between dropping her off and picking her up I got about 5 hours free and I will damn well make use of that time to play my Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Playstation 2 and Sega Mini and also watch some VHS tapes on the VCR player I have.
Not only that will be done in my free time and during my stop of my blogging, I will watch more TV shows and movies once again and work on making some proper meals and enjoy more time with my family including enjoying that time with my daughter and son and allowing my mental health and my health to improve and not worry about constantly working and money.. at least during that time.
I have already started this by playing some games for fun without taking any screenshots, or watching TV shows and movies a little more when I am able to and I am loving it and the feeling, of just enjoying it without a need to get content out to share what I am doing or playing with Hive, but I keep thinking about posts and having to stop myself from writing new gaming series posts!
I will be back of course and still curating
Now I will still be around curating with my slightly better vote than I had albeit still small, as my Hive Power has grown from all the blogging and working it up and I will try to comment on some posts at times, to engage with people once more.
Eventually I am hoping to come back to bring more blogging once again, after things have settled and the new baby has gotten a little older and I am feeling up to it.. I may start with just one series when I come back and then work in a second but I will be missing it in my absence!