This has been coming for a while. I haven't been on top of my (content) game for a few weeks now, doing a lot of meta stuff instead of 'real' content, not liking it, and generally feeling like my head is elsewhere, off-Steem, while at the same time being distracted by all the things I want to or need to or think I should do here.
There's something about Steem that makes it so that we, Steemians, approach it like 'work' or something we shouldn't skip for a day, and that's also why this place is far from being 'like Facebook' which is more or less supporting your life, while Steem tends to become your life.
About 99.99% (this may or may not be a fact) of the content posted on Steem would never have had a place on Facebook or Instagram.
This is not me being negative, just stating something that is easy to observe around here, and something that is completely understandable: the time to mine STEEM is now, the time to shitpost and just have fun comes later. That also means that even though I have never forced myself to post daily, I do feel 'bad' if I only make 3 posts a week - That means there is some pressure or some expectation I have of myself about 'being active here'.
And I'm taking a break from Steeming that pressure I put on myself
The irony is, of course, I'm busy with doing some Steem stuff that I can't really write about, and that has been taking some of my attention away from Steem. On top of that there also may or may not have been booked a trip somewhere in the coming weeks that I want to enjoy without having to think about putting content on Steem.
So I'm off. Just for a bit. More than a week, less than a month.
And no, this doesn't mean I'm not going to upvote, leave a comment, or even post a picture of my activities now and then in the coming weeks. This just means I'm announcing a break so my expectations are gone and I'm just going to Steem like I would 'Facebook': passively and without quantity or quality targets to make.
Damnit, I was working so hard to get to that 10000 STEEM target ASAP. I guess it will have to wait for a bit.
Cheers. Don't be like Daenerys burn the place down while I'm not paying attention.