User blog:Taldin/Perspectives On Life Changes vs. Habits

Habits are things that we do because we want to do things the same way. Improving oneself, fixing problems, it's all about making things routines.

Change is about doing things differently. Controlled change is what makes habits tick; you learn to consistently keep something changed to a new way, rather than your old way of doing things.

I've a confession to make; I'm not using Habitica regularly these days. It's not that I've outgrown it; it's that I need new habits, and there's a lot of changes going on outside the game that have kinda turned my world upside down.

Doing the Wiki changes, being an admin, used to be a routine that grounded me; it was a constant Need in the midst of chaos and a joy to be creating content to stay ahead of the curve and keep things up to date. But it has been a long, long time since I first volunteered to help out here, and I've been struggling to make the time to make edits and also when I do make the time, to find constructive things to do. We have more hands working the mill now, and while I've been sitting on forum posts, I've noticed I've made a few errors from not being a regular user, and that's a sin against the tech writer in me. One should not answer questions based on how things _were_, but rather, how they are.

I don't want to quit. I am proud of being one of the few Admins around here, and I used to be one of the more prolific editors, but a small handful of the more 'recent' editors put me to shame!

I just completed the biggest life change of my life this week; I moved out of the apartment I shared with someone for the past 16 years. Dividing our stuff was painful, moving arrangements even more so, and man, the expenses were out of sight.

With life changes come other changes too, and my current long streak bit the dust. While the dust settled on my old life, I took a few days break from this -- it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

I think, though, I still want my Wiki Hero streak achievement -- I just need to make it mean something, so it remains part of my routine. For now. I still enjoy doing this, which is why I'm still here, but it's become hard to figure out what to edit and what to do, since I'm not bilingual...

I'll figure it out. This is a habit I don't want to give up. Some things have to remain the same!