I didn’t want to write, ever again.

This is simply about why I’ve been inactive in the past few months

Thilina Dasantha
2 min readApr 14, 2022

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I’ve been quite silent for the past few months. Mostly because I’ve been having doubts about whether writing is worth it as a career or not.

I’m not a full-time writer. I don’t earn much I don’t earn anything from it. I’m writing as a hobby and a medium to express my feelings and thoughts. Once I started writing here, I thought that I could use my hobby to do something. Reach out to some new audience. And it did happen. I have 239 followers, pretty cool, right?

But, after a few months of writing the spark died. Not only here but also as a hobby too. Then I stopped writing for a while. I wanted to take that time to myself as a distraction from constant thinking and convert those thoughts to words.

After a few months of being away from frantically writing for a cause, I’ve returned to writing. Not exactly on medium but on my social media pages. I’ve started to write a few short stories which I haven’t tried before and it received well. I kept writing them and revived a blog that I left untouched. And now, I decided to return to the Medium.

This is quite short.

What I wanted to tell you is that burnout is not a good thing. I’ve talked and written about this earlier as well.

If you feel like you’re burned out, take a break. Please!

Take time to fix yourself a nice distraction.

It doesn’t have to be a fixed time. Take as much time as you want and when you feel like you’re good to go again, come back and share the experience.

After all, You’re only human.

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Thilina Dasantha