I have a handful of websites for my different hobbies and interests. One was for reviewing movies, and another for writing about biblical academics.
In the last year, my desire to watch movies sharply dropped. The friends I used to watch with found other things they would prefer to do. We used to vote on a movie to screen, heckle or enjoy it, then talk about it afterward. Our collective review would go onto the website the following week. We would also chat about films we had watched between group screenings. That abruptly slowed about two years ago, and stopped altogether a year after that. Now, whenever I hope to sit down to watch something new, I can’t force myself to hit play on anything. I tried to revitalize my interest a few months ago by giving the website a major design update. Nothing. Without a group, my enjoyment evaporated. In the last year, I only watched about three new films, plus a few extra from decades past. There is no reason to keep the website when nothing is being written for it.
Likewise, I used to eagerly devour articles and books on academic biblical studies. This field is fascinating to me, and I loved writing up informal articles on the little things I discovered and learned. On average, I would get about ten of these written in a year. Last year, I managed just two, and even those took a lot of effort and forced self-motivation. I just can’t seem to compel myself to do any reading, let alone writing. Ultimately, anyone stumbling onto my website is better off with other resources. Out of the couple hundred-whatever pieces I wrote over the last decade, I have saved twenty ‘articles’ here. The rest of the website has been deleted, and I have no plan to write more.