First, let me take a moment to say thank you for all the prayers and well wishes during this difficult time. I also want to take a moment to say thank you to those that took the time to message me on social media and a very special thanks to those that took the time to call and check on me. It meant a lot to me. My decision to leave the wet shaving hobby has been a happy one and I am in a good place. Sometimes you simply have to turn away from something to be happy and writing blog posts and making shave videos was one the many things that I've turned away from. I was already burned out on the wet shaving hobby in general and then my dad passed away on June 14th, 2020 at 1220 AM eastern daylight time. We last saw him on June 7th after we traveled from Virginia to Florida to see him, I last spoke to him on June 11th, 2020 and he died on June 14th, 2020 from pneumonia caused by complications from lung cancer. That was the icing on the cake for me in making some really tough decisions concerning my hobbies and interests. There has been NO trolling and/or personal attacks towards me which had zero influence on my decision to leave the wet shaving hobby.
The first thing that I turned away from was making shave videos. I tried to quit before and a few people talked me into giving it another go and I did for a while but it was becoming a chore rather than being fun. There's a lot of work that goes into making and uploading videos on YouTube and I do mean a lot of work. It takes roughly about 1.5 to 2 hours of work just to upload a 10 minute video on my YouTube channel and that also depends on how busy YouTube is which has been slammed as of late. More on that in a moment. The scary part is that's my shorter videos that are between 6 to 8 minutes in length and with a high speed internet connection. Those that don't have that kind of internet speed takes even longer. Something had to give, I stopped making videos. So I stopped making videos.
Getting away from the news media has been one of the greatest thing since sliced bread. I mentioned YouTube being slammed earlier and that's why they have been slammed as of late in addition to other forms of entertainment such as video games and streaming services. People are sick of the news media and I feel 100% better since I turned off the news media and politics in general. I've not decided just yet but there's a 90% chance that I will NOT be voting this year and if I do decide to vote, it will definitely be the absolute last time that I do. I'm that sick of it. I'm also sick and disgusted of seeing the people in these protests and marches too. It's an embarrassment to our country and their behavior has been disgusting to say the least. I never thought that I would see the day that people would get "offended" at statues that have been up since before their grandparents were born along with getting upset about labels on boxes of rice, pancake mix and pancake syrup. It's straight up disgusting in my humble opinion. There's no other words that I can use.
My final decision was to give up on writing blog posts. 7 months since my last blog post and to write something different each time has been getting tougher each time to the point where I no longer have the will or desire to even write something anymore. Between that along with my post views dropping significantly, it's simply best that I stopping writing blog posts in general. I'm doing good to get 25 views per blog post now and the only reason I got more than that on the last one is because I've not been writing blog posts anymore. It's simply not worth the time to write something if people arent going to read it. So with that being said, I'm happy with my decisions that I've made and I'm in a good place. So thank you for your support over the past 6.5 years and God bless all of you.
