I'm Bored Of Substack

Is anyone else feeling like this?

Dear Reader,

For the past few days, or even weeks, I have been feeling something which is quite unusual. I thought I would never feel this way, but here I am writing about it. You have read the title and it’s no longer shocking. Yes! I’m bored of substack, and I don’t even know what’s the reason. I still love writing about different topics or a poem here and there, or even a story when I’m feeling really creative. But, there’s just something about this app now that’s not the same as it was.

I started writing here during September of last year, and at that time, I had absolutely no idea that so many people would engage with me and my content on this platform. I’m still so thankful to each and everyone who has ever read anything from me or have supported me in my substack journey. Thank you so much. But now, it just feels different. Whenever I decide to write something, I just don’t feel that same level of excitement or interest as I would use to feel earlier. It feels like a burden, a job I have to do now.

Even while writing this post, I'm feeling like this, and I just don’t know what’s the reason for it. It’s not that no-one’s reading what I am writing. There are so many lovely people here who always read and engage with my content and I know that they will always support me no matter what. But still, there’s an emptiness that I always feel in my heart when I sit down and write something here. I will have a topic for sure but that zeal to write it down for a post is no longer within me.

Maybe, the reason for my boredom is over exposure, or over writing, because these days I just no longer like opening the app and just scrolling through notes or read the posts of my fellow substack friends. This is not because I'm not interested or excited to read what they are writing. I just don’t feel like reading because I just don’t want to. It’s like, I have done this thing for so long, that now it just feels repetitive and boring. I know everyone writes about such different things and there’s a plethora of topics to read about but at the end of the day, I’m just bored of this app and maybe I need to get out and touch some grass.

Boredom arises when you no longer find anything interesting or worth spending your time doing it. If we go by this, then I no longer find substack interesting, and I just no longer want to spend a few hours of my day on this app or writing something on this app. Why? Again. I don’t know. It’s such a strange feeling. So strange that even I don’t know the reason. I want to read but also don’t want to use the app. What can be the solution? Reading my favourite publications through their websites? Yes! maybe. I can consider it actually.

But, my plight is not not wanting to read articles. It’s all about getting bored of this thing called Substack. You see, we are humans and we do get bored of something or someone one day, unless we truly love them. In my case, I loved substack initially, but then I don’t know what happened but it just wasn’t feeling the same anymore. It no longer felt like the comforting place, where people would write whatever they felt like and wonderful people would comment if they related to or liked it. This was substack for me.

Now, everything feels like a game. You have stats for every thing. The stats for notes literally scare me. I don’t even know what all things are they talking about. The notes I often get on my feed are good, insightful but not that interesting or valuable to me. There’s an astonishing amount of posts that I want to read and that feeling or burden of reading so much just makes my enthusiasm drop to a zero.

I have also seen many people who started writing here at the same time when I started, and now some of them have either started writing really less number of posts, or have completely disappeared from this platform. So, my questions are, can someone only enjoy writing here, for just a few months, and then just no longer feel like using this app anymore? Am I alone in thinking like this? Is anyone else also feeling a bit bored of substack? If yes, then why? Do you have a reason? If you do, please tell me. Maybe I’ll be able to justify my boredom.

I can take a break if I want but the thing is, even after taking a break, I'm pretty sure this feeling won’t go away. I faced the same thing like this around the beginning of November, last year. At that time, I was feeling a bit intimidated by the numbers game on here and just felt my writing is worthless. So, I took a break and came back with a fresh mindset and continued to enjoy writing here. I think it’s happening again, but this time, I don’t even care about the numbers as well. I don’t care who likes, reads or comments on my posts. I’m really thankful to everyone who do. I’m just not comparing myself to anyone else on this app anymore. Still, I have no idea why I'm feeling this way. Maybe, it’s burnout, maybe it’s an unexplained boredom but whatever it is, I can assure you that I'm not leaving substack anytime soon. I might not write here for weeks or even months, but whenever I'll write, I want to feel excited, motivated and interested. Until that happens,

Farewell.