The Key to Happiness Is Doing the Things That Make You Happy

and avoiding the things that don’t.

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I’ve been blogging since I was eighteen. It was the only thing I knew, so when I got tired of it, I thought it was the topic I was writing about and quit to start a new blog nine months later about something else.

It’s only been four months since the launch of that blog, but about a month ago, I started tinkering with the idea of quitting again.

It turns out the topic had nothing to do with my discontent and dread — it was blogging itself.

I love writing, and that was the only part I enjoyed. All successful bloggers are also social media influencers and YouTube successes, but I couldn’t care less about that.

I don’t like taking pictures or writing captions, and while I liked creating YouTube videos for the year or so that I did it, I didn’t love it enough to continue.

That’s why yesterday, I finally decided to stop my blog for good. (I’m announcing it to my thirty-four email subscribers soon.)

Even though I’ve been on Medium for four months now, I still felt uncomfortable letting go of my website.

I continually asked my sisters and parents what I should do, but their advice didn’t matter because…