10k views blog
(Original post: https://www.chess.com/blog/DrummerGDElijah/goodbye-blog. Go read that.)
Hey guys, this is Elijah. Making this blog because I doubled my view count. Yay. Never thought that would happen. But then again, there’s a lot happening/that has happened in my life that a year ago I could’ve never predicted. 5k views is still a far greater achievement to me than 10k views btw. But anyway, I guess this is a short life update/reflection after hitting 10k views. Maybe this could be a yearly thing? 🤔
In my “goodbye blog” post, one thing I said was: “Once I hit 5k views, I’ll be leaving a lot of clubs.” This did happen. I think I left around 75 clubs and hovered around the 115 mark for a while, but then it slowly increased over time. In the past few months I haven’t joined many clubs, and currently it sits at around 150, a comfortable number. A lot of those clubs have all their notifs off, or are deadish. Pretty much the only clubs I’m semi-active in now are CHT, of course, Ray’s fan club where I’m co-owner, and me and Ray’s private domains (although that doesn’t exactly count).
Another thing I said: “Membership in clubs isn’t the problem, however. It’s the amount of notifs…that is the problem.” It’s very true. After leaving all those clubs and adjusting the settings, the result was way fewer notifications. I used to get 150+ a day. Now it’s more like 20–30, which is infinitely better.
‘Nother thing: “...especially in CHT, I’ll now become an oldie, except I won’t be an inactive one…”. Yeah right. If I was honest with myself I wasn’t about to go full on inactive. It’s true I don’t comment as much and am not as involved as I used to be, but that doesn’t make me an oldie yet. Still have quite a while left before I get that title. I’m less active, not inactive. There’s a difference.
Last thing: Chess tournaments. Yeah so basically one day I was just doing my daily puzzle rush and in that moment, I realized I had zero goals and zero motivation to keep grinding chess, especially because I wasn’t getting anywhere and had little progress. It’s not like I was quitting chess or anything; I still love the game, I just don’t play it as often anymore. In fact I haven’t played a single chess game on chess.com in months lol. I still do puzzles every so often but that’s about it. I initially still wanted to do tournaments, but I haven’t been to one in months and if I were to go to another one I’d need to seriously brush up on my very-deteriorating skills. Also it’s expensive. Memberships, gas, food, etc. So yeah.
Also idk why I said “ig this is the end of an era” like I was some king or something. Lol that was far too dramatic.
Instead, over the past six months or so I’ve been focusing more on drumming and I’ve been more heavily involved with my church. That’s where I’ve focused my time, and not chess.com. And I haven’t regretted it, it’s been good. I have grown and learned a lot, especially over the past six months, and am much happier with where I am now than before.
I won’t do another long list of names, but I will post another old song. I like this one:
Anyway I don't have much else to say…as always good luck in life to everyone reading this, don’t neglect your New Year’s resolutions, and thanks for 10k views.
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